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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.
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.
Since 1955, when the summer festival first began, the Greek National opera has presented special performances for the ancient Roman-era amphitheatre, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus; its first presentation was Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and in conjunction with the Greek opera company a number of famous international performers of all types have ...
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)
Chaconne is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to ballet music from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna, 1762; Paris, 1774). The premiere took place Wednesday, 22 January 1976 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with lighting by Ronald Bates; Robert Irving conducted.
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 ...
The first result of the new thinking was Gluck's reformist ballet Don Juan, but a more important work was soon to follow. On 5 October 1762, Orfeo ed Euridice was given its first performance, on a libretto by Calzabigi, set to music by Gluck. Gluck tried to achieve a noble, Neo-Classical or "beautiful simplicity". The dances were arranged by ...
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 ...