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          Want to hear a           snippet from Gluck's          work 'Orfeo and          Euridice'?

      Click here to listen to a     short extract from Act 2   Scene 1 - 'Chi mai dell' Erebo...'

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source: http://faculty.mville.edu/

May 10th 2008
Methodist Central Hall
Coventry
at 7-30pm

Tickets: £8:00

Orfeo and Euridice

The opera  was  first  performed  in  Vienna  at  the
Burgtheater on October 5, 1762, for the name-day
celebrations of the  Emperor  Francis I.  The  first
Orfeo was the famous castrato Gaetano Guadagni.
Orfeo was revived in Vienna  during  the  following
year, but then not performed until 1769.  For  the
performances that took place in  London  in  1770,
Guadagni sang the role of Orpheus, but little of the
music bore  any  relation  to  Gluck's  original,  with
J.C. Bach - "the English Bach" - providing most of the
new music. Haydn conducted  a  performance  of  the
Italian version at Eszterháza in 1776. 
Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org 

Supporting Programme includes Mozart works:

*** Motet - Ave verum corpus -                                                  K618
*** Tantum Ergo - K142
*** Laudate Dominum out of 'Vesperae solenne de confessore' -  KV339

 

Christoph Willibald Gluck


We proudly present our Soloists:

Timothy Travers Brown - Orfeo
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Emily Van Evera - Euridice
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Coventry Philharmonic Choir are once again pleased to welcome orchestral accompaniment of :

Musical & Amicable Society

 

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