The title (also that of the concluding story in the book) comes from a section at the end of Gluck
's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, 1762, which ends with Eurydice after all delivered from...
Leisure and Society
Kate O'Brien
Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi
Occupation
Viola Tree
For her first major operatic role, VT
sang the part of Eurydice in a production of Gluck
's Orpheus at the Savoy Theatre
in London.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
Textual Features
Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC
's French-Viennese violinist and composer, Josquin Dorioz, and her singer, Elisabetha Vaara or Lisa, have each struggled with hardships for the sake of their art before they begin their studies together in eighteenth-century Dresden...
Timeline
6 February 1953: Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during...
Building item
6 February 1953
Singer Kathleen Ferrier
collapsed during Gluck
's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden
; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
141
Stevenson, John, 1946 -. British Society, 1914-45. Penguin, 1984.
409
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.