Tonight, the Nederlandse Reisopera premieres a new staging of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, opera of all operas. With this masterpiece, the German composer put an end to Baroque malpractice in 1762. Not only were the libretti impossible to make sense of because of the endless series of subplots, but things were also held up considerably by singers who, on occasion, erupted in an epathetic 'trunk aria', which lost all touch with even the most trivial song.
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