Orfeo ed Euridice

from Christoph Willibald Gluck


Libretto

Ranieri Calzabigi

Premiere

Italian Version: 5 October 1762, Vienna (Burgtheater)
French Version: 2 August 1774, Paris (Académie Royale)

Cast

ORPHEUS (contralto or tenor)
EURIDICE (soprano)
AMOR (Soprano)

CHORUS
sheperds and sheperdesses, nymphs, demons and furies, blessed spirits, heroes and heroines

Place

Time

Composer

Gluck, Christoph Willibald