Orfeo ed Euridice at Metropolitan Opera House

Dates: (10/20/2019 )

Theatre:

Metropolitan Opera House

30 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York,

SUBMIT UPDATES

Christoph Willibald Gluck, an acclaimed composer and influential reformer, whose youth and musical beginnings are linked with Bohemia and Prague, gained worldwide fame owing to his unceasing quest to change the face of opera, to purge it of vocal exhibitionism and draw it nearer to drama and theatre, to find in it – as he put it – “beautiful simplicity”. The first and most famous of Gluck’s operas written in the new reformatory style is Orfeo ed Euridice, dating from 1762. The composer eschews completely the traditional operatic pomposity, inclining instead to an intensive and well-considered musico-dramatic language drawn from the logic and atmosphere of the mythical story of suffering from the loss of the beloved, love that is capable of performing miracles, as well as the weakness that hinders these miracles. Against the grain of Italian opera practice, Gluck markedly increased the role played by the chorus and ballet, he only maintained three soloists – in addition to the two lead characters, the allegoric Amore, a comforter who ultimately brings the imperfect human to the longed-for destination. In Gluck’s adaptation, the famous Greek myth has an introspective, meditative, psychological, hence also extremely timeless, nature. We will be presenting Gluck’s opera in the Italian version, with Orfeo sung by a baritone.

More Local Shows

Add a Off-Off-Broadway Show Listing

Videos

View all Videos

OFF-OFF-BROADWAY SHOWS


		4 Musical Tenors: From Broadway To Hollywood Carnegie Hall (5/23 - 5/23) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN PHOTOS DISCOUNT
		On the Heart of Being, Amidst Machines St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church - The Actors' Chapel (5/17 - 5/17)
		Gidion's Knot Chain Theatre (5/2 - 5/5) PHOTOS
		A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE MCS Theatre (5/2 - 5/19)
		HAIR: THE 60'S TRIBAL MUSICAL MANES STUDIO THEATRE OF L.I. (5/10 - 5/26)
		DOO WOP GOLD WITH THE DUPREES Jeanne Rimsky Theater (6/23 - 6/23)
		Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour North American Tour (9/22 - 6/30)
		THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS BULLE OGIER: A TRIBUTE MAY 1 TO MAY 31 The Museum of Modern Art (5/1 - 5/31)
		Beginner Stand-Up Comedy Classes PianoPiano Studios and St Marks Comedy Club (5/12 - 8/25)
VIEW SHOWS ADD A SHOW


News on your favorite shows, specials & more!