Name: Orfeo ed Euridice
Start: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Komische Oper

Organization

Stage director

Damiano Michieletto

Conductor

David Bates

Lighting designer

Alessandro Carletti

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Set designer

Paulo Fantin

Choreographer

Thomas Wilhelm

Dramaturge

Simon Berger

Chorus master

David Cavelius

Countertenor

Carlo Vistoli

Orfeo

Soprano

Nadja Mchantaf

Euridice

Josefine Mindus

Amor

Susan Zarrabi

Komische Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin

Others

Vocalconsort Berlin

Italian

Orfeo ed Euridice -  (Orpheus and Eurydice)

Berlin

Germany

Komische Oper

Orfeo ed Euridice Gluck

Public

Orpheus and Eurydice

Approved

»Bald sind wir aber Gesang!« – Countertenor Carlo Vistoli in einer der größten, schmerzlich-schönen und tragischen Liebesgeschichten der Oper: Die Macht der ...

"Soon we'll be singing!" - Countertenor Carlo Vistoli in one of the greatest, painfully beautiful and tragic love stories in opera: The power of music overcomes death in the name of love. After his success with Jules Massenet's fairy tale opera Cendrillon , the Italian star director Damiano Michieletto is returning to the Komische Oper Berlin with a classic of the operatic repertoire.

With the all-enchanting power of his song, Orpheus succeeds in appeasing the hosts of the underworld and wresting the beloved Eurydice from Hades. Now, on punishment for her final death, he is not allowed to look at Eurydice on the way back to life. Tormented by the desire for a look from the beloved, Eurydice asks Orpheus for a proof of love until he finally dares the fatal look back ...

On the basis of the metamorphosesof the classical and ancient poet Ovid, Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de 'Calzabigi created a new version of a subject on the threshold between the Baroque and Classical periods, which was already used as a template for several works at the beginning of the opera genre, including Claudio Monteverdi's first opera, had served. This is hardly surprising, since the focus of the myth is on the song itself: art, music and song are able to overcome the horrors of death in the name of love.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble