C. W. von Gluck: Orfeo (Orpheus and Eurydice): (Cambridge Opera Handbooks Series) - Patricia Howard - Hardcover

This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers and philosophers, as well as musicians and librettists. Patricia Howard and her fellow contributors describe how the opera has been reinterpreted during the two hundred years between its first performance and the present day. Differing twentieth-century views based on practical experience of the work are put forward by the conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Charles Mackerras, the singer Kevin Smith and the English National Opera music consultant Tom Hammond.Howard, Patricia is the author of 'C. W. von Gluck: Orfeo (Orpheus and Eurydice): (Cambridge Opera Handbooks Series) - Patricia Howard - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780521228275 and ISBN 0521228271.