Euridice (Caccini)

Euridice is an opera in a prologue and one act by the Italian composer Giulio Caccini. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, had already been set by Caccini's rival Jacopo Peri in 1600. Caccini's version of Euridice was first performed at the Pitti Palace, Florence on 5 December 1602. Caccini hurriedly prepared the score for the press and published it six weeks before Peri's version appeared.

Roles

Role	Voice type
La Tragedia (Tragedy)	soprano
Orfeo (Orpheus)	tenor
Euridice (Eurydice)	soprano
Arcetro	castrato
Tirsi	tenor
Aminta	tenor
Dafne	soprano
Pluto	bass
Caronte (Charon)	tenor
Proserpina (Proserpine)	soprano
Radamanto (Rhadamanthus)	bass
Venere (Venus)	soprano

Synopsis

The opera follows the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice quite closely, except that it has a happy ending since Orpheus succeeds in rescuing Eurydice from the underworld through the power of his music.

Recordings

Euridice Soloists, Rennes Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Rodrigo de Zayas (Arion, 1980)
L'Euridice Scherzi Musicali, Nicolas Achten (Ricercar, 2008)

Sources

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 12 June 2008
The Viking Opera Guide ed. Holden (Viking, 1993)
Del Teatro (in Italian)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera ed. Parker (OUP, 1994)

Orpheus and Eurydice

Characters	Eurydice Orpheus

Orphean operas	Euridice (1600, Peri) Euridice (1602, Caccini) L'Orfeo (1607, Monteverdi) La morte d'Orfeo (1619, Landi) Orfeo (1647, Rossi) Orfeo (1672, Sartorio) La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (c. 1686, Charpentier) Orpheus (1726, Telemann) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762, Gluck) discography L'anima del filosofo (1791, Haydn) Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, Offenbach) Orpheus und Eurydike (1921, Krenek) L'Orfeide (1925, Malipiero) Orpheus and Eurydice (1975, Zhurbin, rock opera) The Mask of Orpheus (1986, Birtwistle) The Second Mrs Kong (1994, Birtwistle) The Corridor (2009, Britwistle)

Musicals	Orpheus & Eurydice

Plays	Eurydice/Point of Departure (1941, Anouilh) Orfeu da Conceição (1956, de Moraes) Orpheus Descending (1957, Williams) Eurydice (2003, Ruhl)

Films	The Orphic Trilogy The Blood of a Poet (1930) Orphée (1950) Testament of Orpheus (1960) Black Orpheus (1959) Evrydiki BA 2O37 (1975) Parking (1985) Orfeu (1999)

Poetry	Sir Orfeo (c. late thirteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene (c. 1480) Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) "Eurydice" (1999)

Novels	The Einstein Intersection (1967) Gravity's Rainbow (1973) The Medusa Frequency (1987) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Veniss Underground (2003)

Art	Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Albums	Reflections (1970) Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) Metamorpheus (2005) Hadestown (2010) Reflektor (2013)

Ballet	Orpheus (1948) Chaconne (1976)

Video games	The Battle of Olympus Don't Look Back

Related	The Gaze of Orpheus Orpheus Monument Orpheus no Mado Orphism

Authority control	GND: 4575819-0

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