C.W. Von Gluck, Orfeo

Orfeo

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Paperback | 19 October 1981

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This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers and philosophers, as well as musicians and librettists. Patricia Howard and her fellow contributors describe how the opera has been reinterpreted during the two hundred years between its first performance and the present day. Differing twentieth-century views based on practical experience of the work are put forward by the conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Charles Mackerras, the singer Kevin Smith and the English National Opera music consultant Tom Hammond.

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General preface	p. v
List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. ix
The Orpheus myth in operatic history	p. 1
The libretto	p. 10
The grand coincidence of the reform	p. 10
Calzabigi and Metastasio	p. 17
Calzabigi and Gluck	p. 22
Synopsis	p. 27
'The most moving act in all opera'	p. 40
The initial impact	p. 53
First performance: documentary	p. 53
First performance: speculation	p. 56
The diffusion through Europe	p. 60
Orpheus in England	p. 62
From Orfeo to Orphee	p. 67
From revolutionary to conservative	p. 67
Gluck at the Academie Royale	p. 69
A comparison of the scores	p. 74
The opera in the nineteenth century	p. 84
Berlioz and Gluck	p. 84
After Berlioz	p. 97
The opera in the twentieth century	p. 99
Berlioz: the best of both worlds	p. 99
Orphee et Euridice: Gluck's final solution	p. 105
A note on the aria di bravura 'L'espoir renait dans mon ame'	p. 109
Hands off Orfeo!	p. 112
Gluck and the Wagner family	p. 119
The Orfeo show	p. 121
Table of numbers	p. 127
Bibliography	p. 135
Discography	p. 137
Index	p. 141
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