2:30 pm,
Sunday,
March 28, 2021
Online Event
Spring Mainstage: Orfeo ed Euridice
First performed in 1762, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice is based
on the myth of Orpheus. Orpheus, bereft by the death of his
wife, Eurydice, just after their wedding, entreats the gods
to restore her to him. Won over by Orpheus' playing of
beautiful, sad music, the gods send an emissary, Amore, to
set a challenge for Orpheus: travel into the underworld and
bring Eurydice back to the surface to restore her to life.
There are two conditions: Orpheus cannot look at her along
the journey and he must never complain about the first
condition. Although as the original myth depicts, Orpheus'
resolve fails at the last moment, all is not lost for
Orpheus and Eurydice in Gluck's opera. Join us via
goshen.edu/livestream to learn what ultimate fate awaits
them.
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