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Hofesh Shechter

Artist

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2021

2018

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Broadcasting

Chorus Director

Componist

Danser

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Dramaturg

Extra

Geluidsontwerper

Haar stylist

Illustrator

Koor

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Librettist

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Orchestra Operations

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Photographer

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Set designer

Stage Manager

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Uitvoerend producent

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Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Zanger

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano

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Tenor

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

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Spoken

Juan Diego Flórez makes his stage role debut in Gluck’s great opera with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists in a new production directed by...

Orphée et Eurydice trailer (The Royal Opera)

Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera's production of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/eurydice


The Italian Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck’s great ‘reform’ operas. In it, he and his librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi sought to move away from the complicated plots and ornate music of opera seria, in favour of a ‘noble simplicity’, where music always drives the story. The opera’s premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater on 5 October 1762 was a great success – so much so that Gluck himself revised the opera for the French premiere at the Paris Opéra on 2 August 1774 as Orphée et Eurydice. It is longer, larger and grander; Gluck extended movements, added new ones and revised the orchestration to suit the forces of the Opéra. He also recast the role of Orpheus from alto castrato to the haute-contre of French opera, a very high tenor. The opera remains Gluck’s most popular work, and a landmark in operatic history.

Orphée et Eurydice includes some of Gluck’s most loved music, from Orphée’s tender ‘Objet de mon amour’ and ‘J’ai perdu mon Eurydice’ to the spectacular ‘L’espoir renaît dans mon âme’, added for the French premiere. The chorus also assumes a role of great importance, particularly in their roles as the shades and Furies of the underworld. But the opera is perhaps most celebrated for its innovative dance music; two of its many highlights include the ‘Dance of the Furies’ and the ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’. In this new production for The Royal Opera, acclaimed choreographer Hofesh Shechter, who made his debut with The Royal Ballet in the 2014/15 Season, makes his operatic debut in collaboration with Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames (La donna del lago, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny).

Orphée et Eurydice - 'J'ai perdu mon Eurydice' (Juan Diego Flórez, The Royal Opera)

Orfeo ed Euridice

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