Orpheus (1953)

Opera in two acts by Raniero de' Calzabig; English text after the Reverend J Troutbeck

MUSIC

Christoph Willibald Gluck

SCENERY & COSTUMES

Sophie Fedorovitch

CAST

Orpheus: Kathleen Ferrier
Amor: Adele Leigh
Eurydice: Veronica Dunne

DANCERS

Dance of the Furies: Alexander Grant and corps de ballet
Dance of the Blessed Spirits: Svetlana Beriosova and corps de ballet

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Covent Garden Opera and Sadler’s Wells Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, 3 February 1953

See 1958, Orfeo ed Eurydice; 1978, Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance in the Elysian Fields