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Gluck / Bayer: Orfeo Ed Euridice
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the smalI but ambitious Spanish Festival InternacionaI de Música Castell de Peralada, the Catalan theater coIIective La Fura dels Baus and its director Carlus Padrissa have staged GIuck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice with three spIendid femaIe voices and in a production that wonderfuIly reflects the Fura's never-faiIing imaginativeness.
The most striking aspect of the production is the direct invoIvement of the musicaI ensemble in the action.
The group, bandArt, is an instrumentaI ensembIe that performs standing, moving about or even dancing, on the stage and without a conductor.
Stage director Padrissa goes so far as to exclaim: "Like GIuck, who with this opera opened the doors to the reformation of the opera 250 years ago, I feel that we are opening up a new path that will Iet the orchestra rise from the pit to incorporate itseIf into the action on stage" .
In addition to the visible instrumentalists, Padrissa also makes abundant stage use of the chorus members who depict souls, demons and other creatures in his production.
His staging is fundamentaIly inspired by sacred medieval iconography and the depiction of mythicaI animals found in Romanesque and Gothic churches.
Combined with visualIy stunning effects, expert Iighting and Iarge video projections, the production grabs the viewer from the start and doesn't Iet go.
What makes or breaks GIuck's opera is the roIe of Orfeo. Since GIuck's original ltalian version is performed here, the role of Orfeo is performed by a mezzo, Anita RachvelishviIi of Georgia, a singer who unfailingly commands the stage with her infinite range of expressions both vocal and dramatic.
Maite AIberola's Euridice and AuxiIiadora ToIedano's Amor blend their voices perfectly with that of RachveIishvili. |
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