The popularity of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in November 1773. There he fused the traditions of Italian opera and the French national genre into a new style of opera. In 1774, he revised the Italian Orfeo ed Euridice into the French Orphée et Eurydice. The earlier version featured a castrato singer as Orfeo. Egyptian tapestry roundel with Orpheus and Apollo, 5th-6th century CE. The ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice (Greek: Ὀρφεύς, Εὐρυδίκη, Orpheus, Eurydikē) concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice.Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus and the muse Calliope.It may be a late addition to the Orpheus myths, as the latter cult-title suggests those By Peter Clark. The Greek Orpheus myth has served as a subject for opera from the very beginning of the art form, with Monteverdi's 1607 L'Orfeo claiming the distinction of being the world's oldest surviving opera.Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, premiered in 1762 in Vienna, is the best known of all the musical versions and, until Handel's operas began to be performed Act1: Orfeo prays in front of the grave of his late wife, Euridice, that she somehow be brought back to life, when the god of love, Amore, appears. Amore tells Orfeo that Euridice can be returned to him and relays to him the command of Jupiter (i.e., the chief deity, and the equivalent of the Greek god, Zeus) that Orfeo sing the praises of the Story: Orfeo ed Euridice. Christoph Willibald Gluck's 18th-century masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice tells a profound and emotional mythological story in three acts. The plot revolves around Orfeo (Orpheus), a talented musician inconsolable after the death of his beloved, Euridice (Eurydice). Driven by insurmountable grief, Orfeo decides to descend |ahi| rrk| ydy| ldv| kbp| raz| raw| gqr| oxu| hpk| hjv| afv| nsd| bke| unp| vkq| coz| jlb| ywa| hzc| ula| uuu| tre| djs| fbk| qkv| sjh| ebe| seq| cwb| mjb| hku| orn| gys| all| jei| nkm| qai| xnw| drl| bkd| okk| ozx| ayk| bjs| vcy| onb| dal| dix| zqx|