Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (Orpheus and Eurydice)

Gluck's influential 'Orphée et Eurydice' tells the story of Orphée's descent into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice. Berlioz, in his 1859 version prepared for the Théâtre Lyrique, exploited the score's full potential through a synthesis of the versions Gluck prepared for Parma, Paris and Vienna. Aurélien Bory's Paris production was described as 'just breathtaking' by OperaJournal.