Orfeo ed Euridice/Orphée et Eurydice: Italian and French Libretti - Softcover

Gluck, Christoph Willibald; De' Calzabigi, Ranieri; Moline, Pierre-Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784350141 ISBN 13: 9781784350147

Publisher: JiaHu Books, 2014

Synopsis

Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph W. Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It is the first of Gluck's "reform" operas, in which he attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera seria with a "noble simplicity" in both the music and the drama. Though originally set to an Italian libretto, Orfeo ed Euridice owes much to the genre of French opera, particularly in its use of accompanied recitative and a general absence of vocal virtuosity. Indeed, twelve years after the 1762 premiere, Gluck re-adapted the opera to suit the tastes of a Parisian audience at the Academie Royale de Musique with a libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline."

About this edition

• Publisher: JiaHu Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1784350141
• ISBN 13: 9781784350147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52