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

Juan Diego Flórez in The Royal Opera's production of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice. Find out more at 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 tha