Question
Pauline Viardot (“vee-ar-DOH”) sang this role in Hector Berlioz’s 1859 version of one opera. In that French version, this character states, “I have lost,” instead of asking in the original Italian, “What will I do without?,” or “Che farò senza (“kay fah-ROH sen-TZAH”)?” In another opera, the personification of Hope abandons this character, who sings “Possente spirto.” This man’s [emphasize] lover titles the earliest surviving opera, by (*) Jacopo Peri. This is the first title role of a reform opera containing the “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” by Christoph Gluck (“glook”). An Infernal Galop features in a parody of that opera by Jacques Offenbach titled for this man “in the Underworld.” For 10 points, name this title character of a 1607 Monteverdi opera, the husband of Eurydice. ■END■
ANSWER: Orpheus [or Orfeo or Orphée; accept L’Orfeo; accept Orphée aux enfers or Orpheus in the Underworld; prompt on Orfeo ed Euridice or Orphée et Eurydice] (The second line refers to the aria “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice,” or in the Italian, “Che farò senza Euridice?”)
<Ivvone Zhou, Fine Arts - Opera> ~28737~ <Editor: Ivvone Zhou>
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