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Work of 1762, it represents sure the tastes and the topics of the age. The booklet is rigorously in written Italian and from Ranieri De' Calzabigi, it follows the outline of subdivision in three actions and more scenes, and put in music from Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 -1787).
This work constitutes the watershed between a baroccheggiante way of dealing the grand opera and new tonalities that will carry to the great operistica season of the 800. The booklet is elaborated on the cue of Greek myths, a lot in voga to the age, and in particular from that one of Orfeo and its incredible history of love with Euridice. In synthesis: Orfeo was son of Apollo and Calliope; the God Apollo gave it a Lira with which lofty Orfeo bicame an "citareda".
Euridice, instead, was daughter of Nereo and Doride, and its beauty, beyond that to make to innamorare Orfeo, made to love Aristeo and Euridice in order to escape from these treaded on a snake that biting it, the victims of a murder.
Therefore, upset from the pain, Orfeo it decides to go it to resume in the reign of the dead men; them with its maestria in playing the cetra, condition succeeded in its attempt but to one: that she did not have to watch its mistress until was not gone back in surface. But Orfeo does not resist and watching it provokes it the dead women definitive of Euridice.
For who it was interested references to this history are several loving and pregevoli I find are those of Virgilio (Georgiche, IV) and Ovid (Metamoforsi X, 61-63). In order to return to we, my question was reported to a enough famous area that continuation bringing back:
ACTION III scene I
"Euridice! … preferred!
Ah more not m'ode, It is extinguished for me! Poor!
and I, I was that died to she he brought!
Oh reads Pitiless! those martir to mine somiglia!
in this funesta hour Sol to die with you, lasso!
it remains to me!
What I will make without Euridice?
Where I will go without mine very? Euridice! … Oh God!
You answer! son also yours fedel! Euridice… Ah! not m'avanza More aid, more hope, Neither from the world, neither from the ciel! What I will make without Euridice?
Where I will go without mine very?
But it ends, and in order always, Glue life the dolor!
Of the black Averno They are still on the way: along way It is not those that divides My good from me. "

This step is situated after the second one died of Euridice, finds that it is expressed with a sweetest pain that the notes of Gluck succeed to represent in nearly tangible way. Tragic moment in which Orfeo (but in the mind, creed, anyone of we) account really of the loss of its love becomes, pathos that catches up the stars, outcry that squassa the inferi, and scene that the spirit touches, like before the time that I felt this air. Now, it comes to ask to me to me, to what serve many things, many hards work if then in sol a moment you lose how much more beloved is had? Perhaps the maestria of Orfeo has succeeded to obtain the return of Euridice? In truth Orfeo, in this can consider already a Romantico Hero, satisfied bitterly the human incredulità that is hidden in our thoughts and, in this is felt wide represented.