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Working closely with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) composed Orfeo ed Euridice in Vienna in 1762. A retelling of the Orpheus myth that repudiated the stiff formality of Baroque opera seria for a simplified and more dramatic structure, Gluck's Viennese Orfeo ed Eu...
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Curated by Liam Keane, Primephonic Curator