Gluck - In the Kingdom of Shades: Texts and Music after Orfeo ed Euridice | Coviello Classics COV92104

Gluck - In the Kingdom of Shades: Texts and Music after Orfeo ed Euridice

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Label: Coviello Classics

Cat No: COV92104

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 19th March 2021

Contents

Artists

Yosemeh Adjei (countertenor)
Corinna Schreiter (soprano)
Martin Ellrodt (narrator)
Neue Nurnberger Ratsmusik

Works

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)

Artists

Yosemeh Adjei (countertenor)
Corinna Schreiter (soprano)
Martin Ellrodt (narrator)
Neue Nurnberger Ratsmusik

About

Christoph Willibald Gluck was severely annoyed. He was now 60, and still had to deal with the same annoyances he had for decades: the turbulent life at the Paris Opéra, for which he was always writing new stage works, the many rehearsals with petulant divas, the orchestra musicians, with whom Gluck was rarely satisfied. According to contemporary witnesses, he had to retire to the sickbed for a while due to exhaustion. Here he dreamt up a dream world: an opera radically freed of ballast, without ballet, without a large chorus, with only a few performers and a greatly reduced orchestra.

Gluck himself did not live to see the realization of his dream; the Neue Nürnberger Ratsmusik has now brought it to life: a few singers each have to perform several roles, a narrator replaces the omitted recitatives and even some chorus numbers. Together with the slim ensemble, a prime example of focus achieved through slimming down is created.

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