Women in love: Gluck’s Orpheus as a source of romantic consolation in Vienna, Paris, and Stockholm
Among those who witnessed early performances of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice were Princess Isabelle of Parma, Julie de Lespinasse, and Countess Sophie Fersen. Orpheus, and the music Gluck wrote for him, stirred up similar responses in these passionate young women, all of whom found in the protagon...
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Firenze University Press
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Diciottesimo Secolo |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/301 |