ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

(Orfeo Ed Euridice) Composer: CHRIS TOPH WILL I BALD VON GLUCK Book by RANIERI Di CaLzaBIGI, from a Greek legend First performance: Hofburgtheater, Vienna, October 5, 1762 4 acts. Orpheus, who has mourned the lo of Eurydice, wishes to go into the underworld to look for her. He is warned that he must not look back at her. He finds her at last in the Elysian Fields, after having pa ed safely through Hades, He leads her back, but she pleads him not to look at her. Accidentally he turns to her, and she disappears, returning to the Elysian Fields. Orpheus is in despair until Amor a ures him that the gods have relented, and Eurydice will rejoin him again. They meet in the Temple of Love.