Name: Orfeo ed Euridice
Start: 2009-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Soprano

Danielle de Niese

Euridice

Countertenor

Stephanie Blythe

Orfeo

Kirstin Chávez

Heidi Grant Murphy

Amor

Ying Huang

Conductor

James Levine

Kazem Abdullah

Stage director

Mark Morris

Set designer

Allen Moyer

Costume designer

Isaac Mizrahi

Lighting designer

James F Ingalls

Choreographer

The Metropolitan Opera

Italian

Orfeo ed Euridice -  (Orpheus and Eurydice)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal story from its ancient Greek roots to the timeless present, where, he says, “the union of chorus and dancers feels inevitable and inseparable.” With costumes by Isaac Mizrahi and a set designed by Allen Moyer, this production surrounds the action with the superb Met chorus dressed as a crowd of historic characters who bear witness to the transformative power of love. Orfeo (Stephanie Blythe) is so consumed with grief at the death of his beloved Euridice (Danielle de Niese) that the gods (Heidi Grant Murphy as Amor) allow him to lead her back from the underworld—if he will not look at her on the way. Of course he can’t resist looking, but the gods are truly merciful.

Orfeo ed Euridice

Public

Orpheus and Eurydice

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading