[Met Performance] CID:46470



Orfeo ed Euridice
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, January 29, 1910 Matinee


Debut : Marie Delna, Marcelle Myrtille




Orfeo ed Euridice (16)
Christoph Willibald Gluck | Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Orfeo
Marie Delna [Debut]

Euridice
Johanna Gadski

Amore
Lenora Sparkes

Happy Shade
Alma Gluck

Dance
Marcelle Myrtille [Debut]


Conductor
Arturo Toscanini





"O quel' lotta, delirio extrema" from Gluck's "Echo et Narcisse" was interpolated by Marie Delna at the end of Act I.

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Review in the New York Times:

"...Mme. Delna made one change in her music. Instead of substituting the air 'Divinités du Styx,' from 'Alceste,' for the ineffective air that stands in the score at the end of the first act, as was done in the first performances, Mme Delna sang the air 'O quel' lotta, delirio extrema,' also from one Gluck's operas 'Echo et Narcisse.' The change is an improvement, for the music is more in the style of 'Orfeo' than the robust passionate apostrophe to the gods of the underworld, and hence preserves better a unity of effect."



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