Orfeo Ed Euridice

Performed live at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Glucks opera in three acts is conducted by Hartmut Haenchen Performers include Jochen Kowalski Gillian Webster and Jeremy Budd alongside the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra When Orpheus mourns for his late wife Eurydice the god Cupid offers him the chance to descend into the underworld and lead her back to the land of the living on the condition that he does not look at her face He sets out on his journey but his path to the Elysian Fields is blocked by the fierce Furies