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"A Ópera de um Mito: Orfeu e Eurídice na obra de Monteverdi e Gluck"

2006, Virgínia Soares Pereira e Ana Lúcia Curado (eds.), A Antiguidade Clássica e nós: Herança e Identidade Cultural, Braga, Universidade do Minho, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (2006), pp. 447-458.

Orpheus and Eurydice’s myth has inspired many composers and librettists since Renaissance until present times, and was at the birth of one of the first known operas, the Euridice by J. Peri and G. Caccini. In this paper the author studies the influence of this myth in two of the most significant operas of modern repertoire: L’Orfeo by C. Monteverdi, and Orfeo ed Euridice by C. W. Gluck, bearing in mind the classical version established by Ovid and Virgil. Each opera has two distinct purposes: Monteverdi and Striggio’s work reflects a diligent care about the Classical World and its conceptions; Gluck and Cazalbigi’s effort is to use the myth’s text as a pretext for singing an overwhelming passion.

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