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Work: Orfeo ed Euridice

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ComposerGluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
PeriodClassical
Year1762
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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Bad KissingenCecilia Bartoli – Orfeo

Kissinger Sommer
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Gianluca Capuano; Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco; Il Canto di Orfeo; Mélissa Petit; Cecilia Bartoli

LucerneOrfeo ed EuridiceConcert performance

© Monika Rittershaus
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Gianluca Capuano; Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco; Il Canto di Orfeo; Mélissa Petit

LondonIestyn Davies / Oliver Wass

Wigmore Hall
Gluck, Haydn, Beethoven
Iestyn Davies; Oliver Wass
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Bach and Gluck resound in Bath Abbey with The Sixteen

The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra in Bath Abbey © Angharad Harris
Large ecclesiastical buildings, with their hard surfaces and long high naves, are challenging for complex music like Bach’s.
****1
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Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying

Iestyn Davies (Orfeo) © Michael Cooper
The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre. 
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An acrobatic Orpheus and Eurydice in Edinburgh

Orpheus and Eurydice © Jess Shurte
The music plays second fiddle to Australian circus company Circa in Yaron Lifschitz’s production of Gluck's great opera. 
***11
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ParmaOrfeo ed Euridice

© Roberto Ricci
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Fabio Biondi; Shirin Neshat; Teatro Regio di Parma; Heike Vollmer; Katharina Schlipf; Valerio Tiberi; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

SeoulOrfeo ed Euridice

© Jiyong Kim | Daegu Opera House
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Eom Sookjeong; Daegu Opera House; Hyunjung Kim; Jaehee Lee; Gilhwan Moon; Daegu International Opera Orchestra
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