Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: Orfeo ed Eurydice

Orfeo ed Eurydice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Cast: Janet Baker, Elizabeth Gale, Elizabeth Speiser, with the Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard
Libretto by Ranieri Calzabigi
Label: Erato
Catalogue number: NUM 750423
Country of Issue: France
Date: 1983
Recorded in Brent Town Hall, August 1982
Stereo
Format: LP Boxed Set (2 discs plus booklet)
Label design: Erato black with sliver print
Discs: Near Mint, unmarked
Outer box: VG+.  Mostly excellent,  no tears, front cover has a crease and the imprint of some writing made by someone writing on paper resting on the box...   two small marks on back otherwise very clean
Inner sleeves: original, polylined, as new
Booklet: full size 24pp, perfect, full libretto with French and English translations

This item is in almost new condition throughout except as mentioned above. Acquired by us in 2007 as part of a large collection but never played since.

Orfeowas first performed in Vienna on October 5, 1762. This production was given at Glyndebourne on 27 June 1982 and recorded shortly thereafter. It is in the Italian version that was prepared for a Milan perfoormance in 1884.