Stéphane Fuget continues his exploration of early Italian opera, after recording the trilogy of Monteverdi operas at Versailles. Following on from this (Orfeo, 1607), Stefano Landi’s La Morte d’Orfeo (1619) sets the return of the hero to music, after his failure to bring Euridice back to earth. Consumed by grief, Orpheus renounces all earthly pleasures. Dionysus takes offence, and delivers him to the fury of the Bacchae, who batter him to death.

Alternating between the rage of Bacchus, the cruelty of his priestesses and the strange indifference of Euridice, who has drunk the water of oblivion, La Morte d’Orfeo uses musical effects to create an emotional dynamic teeming with contrasts, like the chiaroscuro of Caravaggesque painting: a hypnotic beauty.

Co-produced by the Royal Opera / Château de Versailles Spectacles and Les Épopées.

This program will be recorded on a CD to be released on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label.

Stefano Landi (1587-1639)
La Morte d’Orfeo

First part: 1h

Intermission

Second part: 1h

Pastoral tragi-comedy in five acts, with libretto by Stefano Landi, first performed in Padua in 1619.

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