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