8/30 - Dance of the Blessed Spirits by C. Gluck - Wedding Ceremony Music for the Entrance of the Bride

8/30 Dance of the Blessed Spirits by C. Gluck

I played this piece for the first time at a wedding ceremony last year.

Dance of the Blessed Spirits is from Act 2 of the opera Orpheus and Eurydice. The music is played during a scene set in Elysium. In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.

The dance is elegant and stately, perfect for the entrance of the bride, and is suggestive of tranquillity, calm, peacefulness and beauty.

James