The soprano Dawn Upshaw made her brief contribution as the Blessed Spirit with lovely, unforced tone.

At a recent performance, her hair was up for the Mozart, down for the Liszt, and back up for the encore, a transcription of Gluck's "Dance of the Blessed Spirits."

Then the serenity of the "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" was contrasted with the gravity of "Orpheus's Lament," a solo for Ms. Belilove.

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Melody from "Orfeo ed Euridice" (Transcription for solo piano of "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from Gluck's opera)

Some of its music is very famous today, e.g. the Dance of the Blessed Spirits which is played on a flute, and Orfeo's aria Che faró senza Euridice?

As an encore, he offered a somewhat better controlled and more sweetly attractive account of the "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice."

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The Blessed Spirits of the next scene, by contrast, are white and legato, flowing with serene body lines and celestial circle patterns.

The brief ballet of 1762 became the four-movement "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" (with a prominent part for solo flute) in 1774.