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	Early Italian Opera: The Orpheus Myth in Opera: The Audience's Perspective
		Euridice was first performed for the wedding of Maria de Medici and Henry IV, and it is considered the first opera.
		The two men both claimed credit for the new genre and publication rights to Euridice (Caccini's students were used in the performance of the opera on the condition that some of Caccini's music be used in the opera).
		At the end of the musical play, you are relieved that Euridice is reunited with her groom, but you hope that your marriage never suffers the heartache that Orpheus and Euridice experienced.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL243/orfeopg.htm (1105 words)

	Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo & Euridice on DVD - MovieWeb
		ORFEO& EURIDICE was a remarkable, influential, and revolutionary opera in multiple ways, demonstrative of many of the things that made Christoph Willibald Gluck a great composer.
		Nonetheless, ORFEO& EURIDICE unfolds on a grand scale, employing choruses of shades and furies that contrast with Orfeo's earthly search for Euridice.
		The opera that largely heralded the end of the Baroque era is still widely performed, often as a ballet, and is often depicted on a much grander, more elaborate scale, as seen in this lavish interpretation.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?675754755928 (228 words)

	Daily News (Los Angeles, CA): 'EURIDICE' A MODERN LOOK AT ANCIENT MYTH.(L.A. Life)(Review)@ HighBeam Research
		Premiering exactly 400 years ago (on Oct. 6, 1600) at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Peri's opera tells the tragic story of Orpheus and Eurydice (`'Euridice'' in the Italian...
		That estimable habit continued this past weekend when the company took up temporary residence at the Getty Center's Harold Williams Auditorium to stage Jacopo Peri's ``Euridice,'' considered the first extant opera.
		Under Michael Milenski's iconoclastic direction, Long Beach Opera has a tradition of viewing obscure corners of the repertory with a fresh eye.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:83402557&... (213 words)

	Christoph Willibald Gluck
		Innocente, L' (1976) (aria "Che farò senza Euridice" from opera "Orfeo ed Euridice")
		Orfeo ed Euridice (1991) (TV) (from opera "Orfeo ed Euridice")
		Maid in Manhattan (2002) ("Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from opera "Orfeo ed Euridice")
	us.imdb.com /name/nm0323220 (297 words)

	Orfeo ed Euridice
		‘Resident principal Rachael Hynes is tremendously amiable and sweet-voiced as Euridice.
		For an excellently sung rendition of a great opera, this is the place to look.’
		Guest conductor Raymond Leppard made the Orchestra of Scottish Opera sound so lovely in what must be one of the most delicately tune-filled scores in all opera.&;
	www.scottishopera.org.uk /microsites/press/orfeo.html (158 words)

	village voice > dance > Orpheus and Euridice by Deborah Jowitt
		Isadora Duncan found the legend of Orpheus and Euridice apt for dancing, and challenged music from Christophe Willibald von Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice by dancing as the sole embodiment of Gluck's choruses of lamenting companions, Furies, and Blessed Spirits.
		The hero of this two-act chamber opera has become a clarinetist (the virtuoso player Todd Palmer), while the splendid coloratura soprano Elizabeth Futra plays both Euridice and the story's narrator.
		And when Euridice comes to life a second time (as narrator, she has to), they spin the pair, now on the piano platform, as if whirling the dismembered parts of Orpheus into musical eternity.
	www.villagevoice.com /dance/0542,jowitt1,68939,14.html (565 words)

	The New Classical Music Forums - Gluck Bio
		With his Greek inspired opera Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762, Gluck introduced an entirely new kind of opera fusing drama, emotion and music for the first time.
		Gluck went to Paris, in 1773, where his first important opera was performed.
		For the next ten years, he orchestrated musical productions at the Viennese court.
	classicalmusicforums.com /showthread.php?p=195 (212 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Vol. 9 No. 1 Harness: Le tre Euridici: Characterization and Allegory in the Euridici of Peri and Caccini
		Rinuccini makes this point even more explicit in Euridice’s final recitative of the opera, when, in answer to a nymph& question of how she could be alive, she delivers the matter-of-fact declaration “Tolsemi Orfeo del tenebroso regno” (“Orpheus took me away from the gloomy realm”).
		While Tim Carter also asserts the political importance of early opera, he views Euridice as political primarily by analogy; that is, its claims of innovation reflected Ferdinando’s new foreign policy.
		But her speech lacks the harmonic clarity of the Peri Euridice: her recitative is without a single strong cadence, and while the “sgombrate” command is colored by a move to the sharp end of the hexachord, it lacks the pungent effect of the shift in hexachord which characterizes Peri’s setting of the text.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v9/no1/Harness.html (10476 words)

	Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald von Gluck
		The mythic story of Orfeo ed Euridice has been one of the standards since the beginning of opera.
		He is first heard piercing the low lament of the Chorus in the opening scenes with heart-rending cries of "Euridice," and his rendering of the show-stealing aria "Che faro senza Euridice?" is full of tangible emotion.
		After a fantastic journey in which his path is barred by furies and the delights of Elysium, Orpheus finds his greatest obstacle is Euridice, who is baffled by his refusal to return her gaze.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/Orfeo.htm (636 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Euridice
		Che faro senza Euridice!, from the Opera of Orfeo.
		Opera Explained An Introduction To Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice (ISBN:1843790815)
		Joseph Haydn, Orfeo ed Euridice (L'Anima del filosofo).
	awww.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Euridice (1169 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Orfeo ed Euridice
		Done properly, Orfeo ed Euridice should be one of the most harrowing experiences opera can offer.
		Daniel Taylor's Orfeo is part man, part angel, pursuing Isabel Monar's hieratic Euridice, who is repeatedly whisked away from him by a group of seven black-clad dancers.
		Since his production was staged at Covent Garden in the 1950s, opera companies have occasionally followed in his footsteps and turned to choreographers rather than directors to stage Gluck's masterpiece.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,,1296264,00.html (317 words)

	ipedia.com: Christoph Willibald Gluck Article
		He is seen as one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, and is particularly remembered for the opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
		While in Vienna, Gluck composed Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), one of his best known works, and the ballet Don Juan (1761).
		Christoph Willibald Gluck is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria.
	www.ipedia.com /christoph_willibald_gluck.html (518 words)

	Guardian Orfeo ed Euridice
		Done properly, Orfeo ed Euridice should be one of the most harrowing experiences opera can offer.
		Daniel Taylor's Orfeo is part man, part angel, pursuing Isabel Monar's hieratic Euridice, who is repeatedly whisked away from him by a group of seven black-clad dancers.
		Greco and Scholten have apparently come to the conclusion that the opera depicts Orfeo's "initiation, his rite of passage", which takes place in "an interspace that is not Hades itself, but the threshold before it".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5007301-108884,00.html (307 words)

	Countertenor David Daniels, Opera Singer and Musician
		Other opera appearances this season include his role debut as Orfeo in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s much anticipated production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and his first performances in the title role of Handel’s Orlando at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.
		Superstar countertenor David Daniels to make Philadelphia Orchestra début, then heads to Chicago for role début in title part of Lyric Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and to Munich in May for Orlando.
		David Daniels begins his 2005-06 season at the San Francisco Opera, reprising his portrayal of Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda, which won critical acclaim and thrilled audiences at the Metropolitan Opera last season.
	www.danielssings.com (316 words)

	Noise Reduction Society - Euridice Remix
		This work is a remix of history's first opera, Euridice, by Jacopo Peri.
		The primary purpose of Euridice Remix is musical and all aspects of the story are not fully portrayed.
		Euridice Remix received its premiere at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis to a standing-room only audience.
	www.noisereductionsociety.com /remix.html (206 words)

	Eurydice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eurydice (also Erudice or Euridice) is an opera written in Florence by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini in 1600.
		This may be due at least in part to Virgil, Plato and the other classical writers softening down the story, which in its older versions (now lost) may have also been very violent.
		It was created for the marriage of Henry IV and Maria de Medici.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Euridice (436 words)

	Vivica Genaux: Scenes from Orfeo ed Euridice
		Orfeo ed Euridice was produced and presented by the Los Angeles Opera from Novenber 29- December 21, 2003.
		Casting for this production was superb: Mario Bayo sang Euridice with her soaring soprano, and Carmen Ginnattasio was the delightfully endearing Amor; and the orchestra, conducted by Baroque specialist Hartmut Haenchen was brilliant, proving that he indeed is master of the genre.
		It is the "song," if you will, that audience members most remember after seeing this production, perhaps because it is the most tuneful, but as importantly, because it was sung, as were all other arias and recitatives, with great poignancy and pathos by the ultimate Orfeo.
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/orfeo.html (260 words)

	Euridice (Jacopo Peri)
		Peri's opera, the first to survive with its music complete, was written for the celebration in Florence of the wedding of Maria de'Medici to the French King Henri IV.
		Additional elements to the score were provided by Giulio Caccini, whose own version of Euridice, published before Peri's, was performed in Florence two years later.
		The figure of Tragedy, with the best of Aristotelian intentions, introduces the pitiful story, which opens with Eurydice happy at her approaching wedding, with her bridegroom Orpheus equally delighted, until a messenger appears telling him of the fatal snake-bite and the death of his beloved.
	www.hnh.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Euridice(Jacopo_Peri).htm (238 words)

	ORFEO ed EURIDICE is what really took my heart away!!!
		Her moving interpretation after Euridice is bitten by the snake is expressed with a penetrating vocal intensity.
		This opera, filled with a clear symbolism, gathers the quintescence of Haydn's genius: a vibrant music that binds to details to the least twists and turns of feelings, a lyricism that asserts itself in many arias as beautiful and passionate as those of Mozart or Bellini as well as a moving story.
		And, Cecilia Bartoli, as we could expect from her, incarnates a touching Euridice, glorious timbre with particular harmonics.
	www.hypernews.org /HyperNews/get/music/bartoli/189.html?inline=1 (1487 words)

	Vivica Genaux: Reviews
		"Orfeo ed Euridice, starring the sensational mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, turned out to be the highlight [of the LA Opera season, thus far].
		Her timbre changes notably in different registers, and her first utterances Saturday, and acidic cry of ‘Euridice’ against a chorus lament, were like an ugly slash in a pretty picture.
		Genaux provides them, and they are exquisite, especially in the beloved aria ‘Che farò senza Euridice,’ her voice kaleidoscopically splintering color.”
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/orfeo-rev.html (853 words)

	"Euridice" Opera (Getty Press Release)
		Orpheus finds his Euridice, and together they return to the serene skies of a world ruled by love and art.
		Originally performed on October 6, 1600 at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Euridice is the love story of the singer Orpheus, who follows his beloved Euridice to the underworld.
		The depth of his love and the overwhelming power of his song arouse the pity of its gods who open its gates for his entry into the darkness.
	www.getty.edu /news/press/public/euridice.html (645 words)

	Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice / Haenchen, Kowalski, Webster, Royal Opera Covent Garden : DVD
		The supporting cast is small but well-chosen, with a boy soprano in the role of Amor and a Euridice, Gillian Webster, who is as good at acting as she is at singing.
		Ironically, the staff who handed over flowers to Euridice´s role after the performance,
		Gluck told the story of Orpheus (really a meditation on the power of music) with a simple directness that has survived more than two centuries of changing musical fashions.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00005RIXN.html (1128 words)

	Orpheus and Euridice (in MARION)
		Orpheus and Euridice : opera in four acts / music by C.W. von Gluck ; libretto by Ranieri de Calzabigi ; English translation by Walter Ducloux.
	library.cerritos.edu /MARION/AAS-4249 (79 words)

	main.html
		Peri’s opera Euridice tells the story of Orpheus and his journey to the underworld to rescue Euridice.
		Composed to be played at a wedding, it opens with a prologue that informs us that, in honour of the happy couple, the ending has been changed so that Orpheus may keep his paramour.
	www.chesternovello.com /work/31879/main.html (119 words)

	Opera North: Orfeo ed Euridice @ Lowry
		For their new production of Gluck's opera about the Orpheus myth, Orfeo ed Euridice, they handed over direction, choreography and stage design to Emio Greco and Pieter C Sholten, famed for their EG/PC dance company.
		As for the opera proper, the traditional trouser role of Orfeo is sung by counter-tenor Daniel Taylor, who meets the fierce demands of the part splendidly.
		RNCM-trained Claire Ormshaw, who has to twitch in Greco's shadow, sings beautifully as Amore, and Isabel Monar is a Euridice to die for.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/music/livereviews/s/134/134714_opera_north_orfeo_ed_euridice__lowry.html (342 words)

	Mariinsky.ru - Opera - Repertoire - Orfeo et Euridice
		Mariinsky.ru - Opera - Repertoire - Orfeo et Euridice
	www.mariinsky.spb.ru /print/en/opera/spectacle/orfei (9 words)

	The Story of Italian Opera
		The opera, Euridice, from an Italian poem by Ottavio Rinuccini, set to music by Jacobo Peri and Giulio Caccini, recounted the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
		Romantic opera, which placed emphasis on the imagination and the emotions began to appear in the early 19th century, and because of its arias and music, gave more dimension to the extreme emotions which typified the theater of that era.
		The first opera of which music has survived was performed in 1600 at the wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici at the Pitti Palace in Florence.
	www.pirandello.com /opera.html (9 words)

	Orfeo ed Euridice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Euridice takes this to be a sign that he no longer loves her, and refuses to continue, concluding that death would be preferable.
		When Orfeo, accompanied by his lyre (represented in the opera by a harp), begs for pity in the aria Deh placatevi con me, he is at first interrupted by cries of "No!" from the Furies, but they are eventually softened by the sweetness of his singing and let him in.
		Act II In a rocky landscape, the Furies refuse to admit Orfeo to the Underworld, and sing of Cerberus, canine guardian of the Underworld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orfeo_ed_Euridice (704 words)

	Biography - Elisabeth Soderstrom (Bio 1670)
		She was subsequently engaged by the Swedish Royal Opera, where she remained a member for decades, singing such roles as Louise, Violetta, Mimi, Euridice, the heroines of Les contes d'Hoffman, Pamina, all three soprano principals in Rosenkavalier, Tatiana, and the eponymous characters of Janacek.
		After studying at the Royal Academy of Music and Opera School in her native Stockholm, Soderstrom made her debut at the age of 20 at the Drottningholm Court Theatre as Bastienne.
		In 1960, Soderstrom made her first appearance at Covent Garden singing Daisy Doody in Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara with the Stockholm Opera.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb16/Bio_1670.htm (704 words)

	Opera - Orfeo Ed Euridice
		Orfeo holds Euridice by the hand, drawing the reluctant wife on, but without raising his eyes to her face; on and on through the winding and obscure paths which lead out of the infernal regions.
		ORFEO (Orpheus), the Greek legendary musician and singer, has lost his wife Euridice.
		Orfeo is surrounded by furies and demons, who try to frighten him; but he, nothing daunted, mollifies them by his sweet strains and they set free the passage to Elysium, where Orfeo has to win the happy shadows.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles05/opera-28.shtml (380 words)

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