Laura Anne Ayres

Bärli,

One opera refuses to leave me alone: Orfeo ed Euridice, written by Christoph Gluck.

Precious boy, even if you become the wisest, best-informed classical music historian/critic/snob of your generation, look down upon the Vienna version of this opera with disdain to the utter heartbreak of your mother. Nozze was my money maker, but Orfeo was my love.

The story of Orfeo and Euridice is one of al