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Harry Bicket

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2018 Production at the Chicago Lyric OperaChoreographed and Directed by the Master Noverre *Orfeo ed Euridice*Founded in 1954, the Chicago Lyric Opera is one of the three major opera houses in the United States, alongside the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera.This video features Glucks *Orfeo ed Euridice*, which premiered in 1762 and became a banner of opera reform, as performed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 2018. This production used the Paris version, which features extensive ballet sequences; in the original Vienna premiere, the role of Orfeooriginally sung by a castratohad been rewritten for a tenor. A highlight of this production is that world-renowned choreographer John Neumeier took on all aspectschoreography, direction, set design, costumes, and lightingin a collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Although the Paris version features extensive orchestral passages,