
L'Orfeo, Favola in musica
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Overview
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
Simon Keenlyside
Orfeo
Simon Keenlyside
Orfeo
Juanita Lascarro
Juanita Lascarro
Eirodoce / La Musica / Eco
Juanita Lascarro
Eirodoce / La Musica / Eco
Graciela Oddone
Graciela Oddone
Messagiera
Graciela Oddone
Messagiera
Martina Dike
Martina Dike
Proserpina / Ninfe
Martina Dike
Proserpina / Ninfe
Stephen Wallace
Stephen Wallace
La Speranza / Pastori / Spiriti
Stephen Wallace
La Speranza / Pastori / Spiriti
Tómas Tómasson
Tómas Tómasson
Plutone
Tómas Tómasson
Plutone
Paul Gérimon
Paul Gérimon
Caronte / Pastori / Spiriti
Paul Gérimon
Caronte / Pastori / Spiriti
Mauro Utzeri
Mauro Utzeri
Apollo
Mauro Utzeri
Apollo
Anne Cambier
Anne Cambier
Ninfe
Anne Cambier
Ninfe
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