Name: Orfeo ed Euridice
Start: 1991-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1991-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Conductor

Hartmut Haenchen

Stage director

Harry Kupfer

Set designer

Hans Schavernoch

Costume designer

Eleonore Kleiber

Lighting designer

Willibald Kämmer

Chorus master

Robin Stapleton

Countertenor

Jochen Kowalski

Orfeo

Soprano

Gillian Webster

Euridice

Jeremy Budd

Amor

Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Orfeo ed Euridice -  (Orpheus and Eurydice)

London

United Kingdom

"Harry Kupfer's version of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, originally conceived for the Berlin Komische Oper and now in the repertory of The Royal Opera, won the Olivier Award for ""Most Outstanding Achievement in Opera".

According to legend, Orpheus' magical power as a musician enabled him to regain his wife from the dead on condition that he did not look at her on the journey back from Hades - a condition it proved impossible to fulfil. In Harry Kupfer's updated version, Orfeo, in leather jacket, trainers and jeans, sees his Euridice die in a street accident. Succumbing to depression, he languishes in Hades - a psychiatric hospital - before taking his electric guitar to charm the beasts in an inner-city concrete jungle. Hans Schavernoch has designed an ingenious set with projected imagery on revolving screens and mirrors.

The German male alto, Jochen Kowalski, gives a virtuoso performance as the tormented Orfeo, with the young British soprano Gillian Webster as Euridice."

Gluck's masterwork Orfeo ed Euridice, in an outstanding production by Harry Kupfer, sung in Italian.

Euridice is dead. Her husband Orfeo is overwhelmed with grief and is longing for death. But Love intervenes and tells Orfeo that he can bring back his wife from the underworld, on the condition that he does not turn back to see her on the their way back to the living world. Orfeo takes on the quest. Begging before the chorus of the Furies, Orfeo is eventually admitted into the underworld and meets his wife. But on their journey back, Euridice is worried by her husband's indifference: "Beloved husband, will you leave me thus? I am consumed with grief; will you not console me?" Willing to comfort his wife, Orfeo turns back. Euridice expires in her husband's arms.

Premiered in 1762, Orfeo ed Euridice is a turning point in the history of opera. Freeing the plot from the conventions of the 18th century opera seria, Gluck introduces fluidity in the drama. The rigid alternation of aria and recitativo is abandonned; continity and unity are the cornerstones of Gluck's reform, and the lesson is learned by the following generation of opera composers, like Berlioz and Wagner. Besides, celebrated for its melodic invention, Orfeo ed Euridice gave to the lyric repertoire one of its most famous arias "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice" ("Che farò senza Euridice" in the Italian version) and some of the most important pieces for choir..

Orfeo ed Euridice Gluck

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Choreographer

Dancer

Actor

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Tenor

Singer

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Watch full performance here: Orfeo ed Euridice (1991)

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Orpheus and Eurydice by Gluck, Mar 01 Ian. 1991, De la (1991/1991), Regizat de către Harry Kupfer,, Dirijor Hartmut Haenchen, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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