A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Orfeo ed Euridice

1809436A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Orfeo ed Euridice


ORFEO ED EURIDICE. Opera by Calsabigi; music by Gluck, the first in his new style. Produced at Vienna, Oct. 5, 1762, and in Paris, where it was published in score at the cost of Count Durazzo, in 1764. Its great success was in the French translation as Orphée et Euridice, ten years later. It was produced in London at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, June 27, 1860—Orfeo, Mad. Csillag.
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