Review | The Met’s ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ makes for a very welcoming underworld
NEW YORK — For a trip to hell and back, the Metropolitan Opera’s season-closing revival of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Eurydice” is journey full of pleasures. The “beautiful simplicity” that Gluck called his “greatest labor” in setting the Orpheus myth (and the “noble simplicity” that poet Ranieri de’ Calzabigi similarly sought in his libretto)…
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