Great Performances

Great Performances at the Met: Orfeo ed Euridice (37x16)

Air date: May 16, 2009

Orfeo ed Euridice (English translation: Orpheus and Eurydice) is the most famous opera by comoser Christoph Willibald von Gluck. It is the mythical tale of Orfeo, who enters Hades to retrieve his dead wife. This production is sung in Italian with English subtitles.