Two CD set: Orpheus and Euridice
Awarded the Gramophone award in 2002, Orpheus and Euridice is a recording of Hadyn's last opera. It is an opera seria relating the tragic Greek myth. The opera was never performed in Haydn'd lifetime.
The myth in a nutshell goes as follows. Eurydice, a ... Read review
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Operatic Orpheus Review ofOrpheus and Euridice - Haydnby
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Advantages: Original instruments, classical greek myth Disadvantages: Serious and tragic
Two CD set: Orpheus and Euridice
Awarded the Gramophone award in 2002, Orpheus and Euridice is a recording of Hadyn's last opera. It is an opera seria relating the tragic Greek myth. The opera was never performed in Haydn'd lifetime.
The myth in a nutshell goes as follows. Eurydice, a nymph, is in despair as she contemplates her forthcoming marriage to Arideus. She is ready to die, but Orpheus saves her life by playing his harp and singing. Eurydice’s ... ...by a snake and dies, Orpheus is inconsolable. He consults the Sibyl, who takes him to the underworld to search for her. Pluto allows Orpheus to search for Eurydice in the Elysian fields, but Orpheus is warned not to look at his wife. He cannot resist glancing at her, and loses her for a second time. As he grieves, the Bacchantes offer him a cup of poison; he drinks it and dies. The river Lethe rises up in anger . When the storm gradually dies down ...
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