L’ombra dell’amore – Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck, zo. 31 jul 2022, Van (2022/2022), Geregisseerd door Franz Killer, Florian Reichart, Dirigent Franz Killer

In 2019, the Pocket Opera Company presented Christoph Willibald Gluck's probably best-known and most popular work "Orfeo ed Euridice" (1762) as an exciting operatic hike in the great outdoors. The musical qualities of this stroke of genius are undisputed and timeless. But is there still anything new to discover in this ancient drama of the soul from Greek mythology, which accompanies Orpheus, the unique singer and "King of Lyre", in the search for his deceased Eurydice in the underworld? Of course! A dangerous shadow wanders in the undergrowth of the Berching forest, just waiting for the moment to sound out the lovers – a shadow whose roots go back to the time the work was written. For "L'ombra dell'amore" not only all Orpheus versions created by Gluck himself were taken into account, but also Gluck's different European places of activity and his associated position as a veritable European in a musical-dramatic synthesis by integrating a total of four languages distilled. The production is organized by the Friends of Christoph Willibald Gluck as part of the International Gluck Festival .