Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor

About this episode

The episode explores the themes of love and loss through the lens of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice.

When someone you love dies, how far would you be willing to go to bring them back? The mythical Orpheus goes to hell and back, but even that isn’t enough to save his love Eurydice.

Topics covered

• Orpheus
• Eurydice
• mythology
• love
• loss

Keywords

• Gluck
• opera
• myth
• death
• rebirth

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