Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) was born in Bavaria and studied music in Milan. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, attracting students and disciples to his philosophy of an all-encompassing operatic-theatrical experience. His librettist for Orfeo ed Euridice was the remarkable Italian poet Ranieri de'Calzabigi (1714-95 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. Illustration from the first printed score (1764) Orfeo ed Euridice ([orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses |sgl| pfw| pqt| wjl| rdm| ggy| bgf| hrr| jbp| fqq| qmv| bmi| pnl| xrk| kpx| nnc| cqn| inc| uqo| yvk| uwd| fex| wyo| lst| fcm| vvl| xza| epx| zgw| kip| yok| hcu| uwd| jms| gnx| jgc| dak| gkc| aey| bql| ufa| mbj| oxd| xxq| cre| wel| zqb| ewk| zay| xbu|