The 2009-2010 Concert Season at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari continues with the eighth appointment, on Friday 29th January at 8.30pm (session A) and Saturday 30th January at 7pm (session B). The public appreciated the performances of The Queen of Spades by Petr Il’ič Čaikovskij (2008) and Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin (2009), and this year there will be another performance of an opera in concert-form: Orpheus and Eurydice, theatrical action in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi. This unique occasion permits the audience to concentrate particularly on the music, in the absence of the visual part typical of an opera production (direction, scenery, costumes and lights).

It is a masterpiece of late the baroque and eighteenth century musical period, which is performed in the 1762 Viennese version. The three main characters are performed by: Marina De Liso (Orpheus), Elisabetta Scano (Eurydice), Susanna Carboni (Amore), while Filippo Maria Bressan conducts the Teatro Lirico Orchestra and the Chorus master is Fulvio Fogliazza.


The opera, Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Erasbach, Bavarian Palatinate, 1714 – Vienna, 1787) was performed for the first time at the Burg Theatre in Vienna on 5th October 1762, marked the beginning of what is known as the “reform of melodrama”, perfected and defined with the later Alceste (1767). The “reform” followed the canons of classical Greek tragedy, which were already the basis of Baroque melodrama, pursuing the integrity of the drama with a truly original precision and musical beauty.