L'Orfeo, Favola in musica

L'Orfeo, Favola in musica (1998)


  • Genre: Music
  • Release Date: 1998-05-13
  • Runtime: 1h 56min
  • Production Company: RTBF
  • Director: Pierre Barret

Summary

First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in Télérama: ‘In the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.’ For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: ‘This Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . René Jacobs’s conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.’

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  • Simon Keenlyside

    as Orfeo
  • Juanita Lascarro

    as Eirodoce / La Musica / Eco
  • Graciela Oddone

    as Messagiera
  • Martina Dike

    as Proserpina / Ninfe
  • Stephen Wallace

    as La Speranza / Pastori / Spiriti
  • Tómas Tómasson

    as Plutone
  • Paul Gérimon

    as Caronte / Pastori / Spiriti
  • Mauro Utzeri

    as Apollo
  • Anne Cambier

    as Ninfe
Directing Pierre Barret Director
Sound René Jacobs Conductor
Writing Alessandro Striggio Writer
Sound Claudio Monteverdi Original Music Composer

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