My soul is eager for this kind of pain
Ross Wassermann tracks the development of “Che farò senza Euridice?” — and “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice” — for this month’s Perspectives on an Aria
Marilyn Horne
135 pieces since 2007 — in 20 roles, at 14 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
135
pieces
20
roles
14
companies
20
years
By role
By company
Metropolitan Opera 11
Carnegie Hall 5
American Opera Society 3
Lyric Opera of Chicago 3
San Francisco Opera 3
Cincinnati May Festival 2
La Scala 2
Gelsenkirchen Opera 1
LA Opera 1
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 1
New Jersey Symphony 1
Opera Orchestra of New York 1
Royal Opera Covent Garden 1
Santa Fe Opera 1
4 pieces as Orfeo — stats above show all coverage for Marilyn Horne.
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Pretty little lyre
Starring Jamie Barton, Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the Met next month for the first time in more than a decade so “Trove Thursday” offers two complete live versions of Gluck’s masterwork.
Every day a little death
Neumeier adapted the story close to home, making Orpheus a choreographer and his wife a star ballerina.
Trick or trill
With help from the Met’s invaluable performance archive, here is a look back at just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on October 31st through the years at the Met.