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ACT I. The poet and singer Orfeo grieves before the tomb of his young wife, Euridice, as a group of shepherds and shepherdesses place tributes on her grave (“Chiamo il mio ben coś”). Orfeo is touched by their laments, but his sorrow is acute and he asks to be left alone. He calls on the spirit of his beloved wife to hear his despair; then, cursing the gods for having taken Euridice from him, he resolves to descend to Hades and brave the Furies to find her.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridici
Agnes Balsta, Margaret Marshall, and Edita Gruberova
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by: Riccardo Muti
Orfeo:
Cerco il mio ben coś
In queste, ove moŕ,
Funeste sponde.
Thus I seek my beloved,
here where she died,
on these sad shores.
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