Great Performances

Orfeo

Current Story for three classics of operaThis innovative multidisciplinary great format show is a present-time recreation of Orpheus classical myth combining theater, cinema and painting with traditional operatic and orchestral work, which staging demands both vocal virtuosity as well as acting skills.Few Greco-Latin myths are as powerful and interesting as that of the Thracian singer Orpehus, son of Apollo and Poetry Muse Calliope, whose singing could even move the Gods. In this stage proposal, Orpheus is presented as a mysterious character, distressed and anxious, with no clue whatsoever about his own identity or whereabouts, and whose only way to communicate is through singing.Throughout the days of his clinical internment, while he is trying to recover his true identity, this enigmatic man only sings certain pieces, always from musical versions of the Orpheus’s myth: The four-hundred-year-old L’Orfeo, from Claudio Monteverdi (Mantua, 1607);The no less delightful 18th Century’s Orfeo ed Eurídice, written by Ch. W. Gluck (Viena, 1762; rev., París, 1774);And last but not least, the ironic 19th Century version written by J. Offenbach, Orphée aux enfers (París, 1858, rev. 1874