C.W. Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice - Warner Music Group Germany

Filmed at Glyndebourne in 1982

British mezzo-soprano, Dame Janet Baker, chose to retire from the operatic stage singing the title role in Sir Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Orfeo ed Euridice. This 1982 recording from Glyndebourne, where Dame Janet appropriately began her professional career, proved a suitable crowing glory to the career of one of the great singing actresses of our age. Dame Janet's realisation of Orfeo, the grieving musician from Greek mythology, who follows his beloved wife Euridice to the depths of Hades in an attenmpt to bring her back from the dead, is totally convincing - "...one of her finest and most moving portrayals".