| LC control no. | no 00040894 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée et Eurydice |
| Variant(s) | Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée et Euridice Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orpheus Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orpheus and Eurydice (1774) Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orpheus und Eurydike (1774) |
| See also | Expanded version of (work): Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orfeo ed Euridice |
| Biography/History note | Orphée et Eurydice is a revised and expanded French version of Gluck's original Italian opera Orfeo ed Euridice. Pierre Louis Moline based his translation on the Italian librettist Calzabigi's work. |
| Form of work | Opera |
| Beginning date | 1774 |
| Place of origin | Paris, France |
| Found in | His Orphée et Euridice, c1967: t.p. (Orphée et Euridice = Orpheus und Eurydike : Pariser Fassung von 1774) New Grove (Orfeo ed Euridice (azione teatrale, 3, R. Calzabigi), Vienna, Burg, 5 Oct 1762; French version (trans. and arr. Moline), Paris, Académie Royale, 2 Aug 1774) New Grove dict. of opera (Orfeo ed Euridice = Orphée et Eurydice = Orpheus and Eurydice; Italian version: azione teatrale in 3 acts to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi; Vienna, Burgtheater, Oct. 5, 1762; French version: tragédie opéra in 3 acts to a libretto by Pierre Louis Moline after Calzabigi, Paris, Opéra, Aug. 2, 1774; in 1774, Gluck revised the opera, transposing and adapting the role of Orpheus for an haute-contre rather than the castrato, also altering the orchestration to suit the different forces of the Opéra, and adding vocal and instrumental pieces to make the opera much larger, longer and grander) Wotquenne (41. Orphée et Eurydice) RISM A/I (Orphée et Euridice (frz.); Orphée) |
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