Che faro senza Euridice - Orfeo ed Euridice - Gluck - Amadea

Orfeo's famous aria from Gluck's opera - Orfeo ed Euridice (Act III ).

In the third Act of the opera Orfeo makes the mistake of looking back at his wife (and lover), while they are departing together from the Underworld. Immediately, Euridice, must return to Hades forever...

In this moment of desperation Orfeo beseeches the gods once more to give him back his lover or he cannot live on. There are actually two endings to the opera. In one ending, Orfeo and Euridice are united again on the earth. In the other ending, Orfeo drowns himself in the nearby river... Most modern productions use the first ending, where the two lovers are given yet a "third chance" to be together again. This second ending does fit very well to Gluck's music and to Orfeo's "unstoppable love" for his Euridice.

Live performance of Orfeo's Aria - Che farò senza Euridice - Amadea (Mezzo-Soprano) & Jens Holzkamp (Piano). April 2008.

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• Orfeo
• Euridice
• Gluck
• Amadea
• Dorothea
• Fayne
• Mezzo-Soprano
• Jens
• Holzkmap
• Piano
• Hades
• Underworld
• Greece
• Mythology
• Opera
• Elysian

[cglando]

I would be careful that you don't "swallow" your vowels. Really try to keep a forward placement with them. You have a nice dark, rich tone but it's almost muffled in some parts (could be the recording too)

[dvorakneverdies]

Thanks for singing the recit. This is, like, the only recording here with the recit. Isn't it?

[elegie84]

Great! Dorothea, thank you so much for posting this lovely aria, you sang it supreme! :-) I'm now in phase of studying this aria, because my voice teacher wants to see how I sing in mezzo, because she can't define am I now mezzo or dramatic soprano. Let's see how it develops. All the best, Jelena

[cleareyedwolf]

I second that.

[APhantomPhan]

I'm so glad you sang the recit. I have to learn it and I wanted to listen to it to get a better idea of how it ought to sound. This is the first clip I've found that didn't just jump straight into the aria. And you have a very nice voice. =)

[dabiribd]

here for another listen

You're awesome Dorothea

[hauntedingeorgia]

beautiful, beautiful voice

[dadasopher]

It's a real a pleasure hearing Gluck sung so beautifully and intelligently. In fact, it's rather magical.

[compeld2sing]

Great!

I sang the lat part with you (don't know the first part).

[hswatnik]

An excerpt like this air from Gluck's pen is not a commonality to the average man on the street- this music is very sophisticated even if its 250 years old give or take a century- and if I listen to this rendition 100 times I'll discover new things- in the music itself and the artist rendering the werke- a pop tune offers the past window whereas a old tune such as this previews a new world- opens a vista to tomorrow, so what is past is prologue and what is now is yesterday's paper-well sung DF-