This is probably Gluck's most famous aria, coming from the opera 'Orpheus' which was based on the Greek legend and produced in Vienna in 1762. Orpheus is in despair at this point in the opera: he sings of losing his love Euridice, 'She is gone and gone forever'. ('Ché Faro senza Euridice'). What is the point of staying on earth without her?
