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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41, Act 3 Scene 1: Récitatif, "Ah! puisse ma douleur" (Orphée)
by Anne Sofie Von Otter/Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
About This Song
About "Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41, Act 3 Scene 1: Récitatif, "Ah! puisse ma douleur" (Orphée)" by Anne Sofie Von Otter/Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The final act opens with a plea that aches with foreboding. Von Otter’s voice, worn and tender, seeks solace in suffering itself. Gardiner’s strings hover like shadows, and the recitative becomes a meditation on loss—a man bargaining with silence, knowing the cost of looking back.