'Orfeo Ed Euridice' at The House of Radio, Paris
Considered a timeless classic Orfeo Ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The story is based on the myth of Orpheus and arranged in a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. The opera belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, which means an opera on a mythological subject comprising choruses and dancing. The piece was first performed in 1762 at the Burgtheater in Vienna in the presence of Empre…