ORFEO ED EURIDICE
Christoph Willibald Gluck
March 3rd to 9th 2024
Sala Principal
90 minutes without a break
ORFEO ED EURIDICE
Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Azione teatrale per musica in three acts
Libretto by Raniero de’ Calzabigi based upon the myth of Orpheus
The metaphor of never looking back
Known as the work that changed
the way of writing opera in the last few years of Classicism,
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice maintains in its dramatic story
the original mystery of the ancient myth, which emerged like all
myths to explain the inexplicable, the sublime. At the height of
Rationalism, Gluck's work keeps intact the mystery of the power of
love in human actions and maintains in his verses the irrational
force of feeling, which eliminates all traces of divine power in
his presence. The new man who heralds Romanticism, the Orpheus who
has Love as his only god, commits the crime of looking back and
loses in that act everything that human beings had conquered in
1762, in the Age of Enlightenment.
March 2024 |
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| 03 | Sunday | 18:00 | |
| 05 | Tuesday | 19:30 | |
| 07 | Thursday | 19:30 | |
| 09 | Saturday | 19:00 | |
Creative Team
Conductor
Gianluca Capuano
Stage Director
Robert Carsen
Set and Costume Designer
Tobias Hoheisel
Lighting Designer
Robert Carsen, Peter Van Praet
Cast
Orfeo
Carlo Vistoli
Euridice
Francesca Aspromonte
Amore
Elena Galitskaya
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Director Francesc Perales
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
A co-production by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Canadian Opera Company, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Opéra Royal de Versailles
