Baerenreiter Verlag Atto d'Orfeo - Gluck - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition - Choir, Orchestra Atto d'Orfeo - Gluck - Vocal Score, Urtext Edition - Choir, Orchestra

Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Arranger: Hans Schellevis
Editor: Gabriele Buschmeier / Isolde von Foerster
Format: Vocal Score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Choir, Orchestra
Language: Italian, German

In 1768, Empress Maria Theresa asked Gluck to compose a festive opera to mark the marriage of her daughter Maria Amalia to Ferdinand of Spain in Parma. The composer accepted the commission and created "Le feste d'Apollo", consisting of several one-act works, including "Atto d'Orfeo". This was a new version of the azione teatrale "Orfeo ed Euridice", which had been premiered in Vienna in 1762 and which was reworked for Paris in 1774. Gluck transposed the title role up for the famous soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico, so that Orpheus' famous aria "Che faro senza Euridice", for example, is in E-flat major instead of C major.
The vocal score includes a well-manageable piano reduction with the accustomed generous engraving.