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Orfeo ed Euridice ([orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet in three tableaux composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by the Ballet Society , which Balanchine founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was Artistic Director.
Euridice, an opera by Giulio Caccini with librettist Ottavio Rinuccini (1602) L'Orfeo, the first opera by Monteverdi (1607) Orfeo, an opera by Luigi Rossi (1647) Orpheus, an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann (1726) Orpheus and Euridice, an ode by William Hayes (1735) Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1762)
1762 – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (French version, Orphée et Euridice, 1774) 1767 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon – The Burletta of Orpheus; 1775 – Antonio Tozzi – Orfeo ed Euridice; 1776 – Ferdinando Bertoni – Orfeo ed Euridice (to the same libretto as Gluck's more famous work) 1781 – Luigi Torelli ...
During production of "Orfeo ed Euridice", von Heidecke was trained by legendary prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, one of the greatest American ballerinas. [4] Von Heidecke continued his studies with Tallchief after the Orfeo production, and Tallchief became his mentor, coaching him in the Balanchine method and repertoire.
Orphée, L'Amour, Eurydice (OAE) is an opera in three acts (five scenes) for a tenor (who must also play electric guitar), a dancer and an actor, with pre-recorded electronic music using music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, composed by Zbigniew Wolny.
Having failed to mount a tour, American Ballet began performing at the Old Met. After being allowed to stage only two dance performances (Orfeo ed Euridice) in 1936 and an evening of dances choreographed to the music of Igor Stravinsky in 1937), Balanchine moved the company to Hollywood in 1938. The company was restarted as the American Ballet ...
Terracotta bust of C.W. Gluck by Jean-Antoine Houdon. The following discography for Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice is mainly based on the research of Giuseppe Rossi, which appeared in the programme notes to the performance of the work at the 70th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2007, under the title "Discografia – Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Eurydice)".