Admin

Opernhaus Zürich

Ténor (+2)

Krystian Adam

Orphée

Lumières

Lumières (+2)

Martin Gebhardt

Video

Tieni Burkhalter

Orchestra

La Scintilla

Chorus

Zurich Sing Academy

Mise en scène

Evgeny Titov

Décors

Décors (+1)

Chloe Lamford

Noemi Daboczi

Costumes

Annemarie Woods

Direction de choeur

Direction d'orchestre (+1)

Marco Amherd

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+1)

Claus Spahn

Basse (+4)

Mirco Palazzi

Charon

Pluton

Ténor (+7)

Mark Milhofer

Apollon

Massimo Altieri

Premier berger

Ténor (+4)

Luca Cervoni

Deuxième berger

Baryton (+2)

Tobias Knaus

Troisième berger

Baryton-basse (+2)

Yves Brühwiler

Quatrième berger

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Josè Maria Lo Monaco

La Musique

La Messagère

Echo

Soprano (+4)

Miriam Kutrowatz

Eurydice

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Simone McIntosh

Proserpina

L'Espérance

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Isabel Pfefferkorn

La nymphe

Opernhaus

A new era in music history began in Mantua in 1607. The first strains of Orfeo, a musical fable written by Claudio Monteverdi, the local court composer, rang out before a small circle of courtly guests. The world premiere marked nothing less than the birth of opera as an art form, for the composer was the first to understand what it meant when music became a sung scene. Embedded in a dramatic plot, the characters on stage turn their innermost feelings outward in a way never before possible, revealing tender emotions and singing from the depths of their souls of the pain of love. The hero of Monteverdi’s first opera is Orpheus, the Thracian singer, whose voice can soften even stone. His song is imbued with the power of total transcendence: on his way to bring his beloved Euridice back from the underworld, his song of supplication succeeds in putting the ferryman Charon to sleep on the banks of the Styx, thus allowing him to cross into the realm of the dead. This scene alone makes it clear what utopian potential Claudio Monteverdi attributed to dramatic song.
Stage director Evgeny Titov, who hails from the world of dramatic theater, has matured into one of the rising stars of the international opera world. He once again demonstrates his talent for capturing extreme human emotions in surprising, evocative images in his production of Orfeo for the Opernhaus Zürich. As in last season’s premiere series, Italian conductor and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone will conduct.

italien

L'Orfeo

Zurich

Suisse