Nightly Met Opera Streams: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

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A scene from Act 2 of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" with Stephanie Blythe (with guitar) as Orfeo. Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Photo taken during the final dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 2009.

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The immortal Orpheus myth—something of an origin story for the power of music—has inspired numerous operas and other compositions, including this 1762 masterpiece by Christoph Willibald Gluck. A prime example of what has come to be known as “reform opera,” Orfeo ed Euridice strips away the self-conscious virtuosity and labyrinthine plotlines common in earlier 18th-century opera, replacing them with musical and emotional directness intended to draw the audience more deeply into the drama.

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