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- DirectorJean-Pierre PonnelleStarsPhilippe HuttenlocherDietlinde TurbanRachel YakarThis opera tells the fable of Orpheus, a demigod with a talent for music. When his bride Eurydice dies, he decides to seek her soul in the Underworld. However, things will not be so easier than he initially thinks.
- DirectorBrian LargeStarsMontserrat FiguerasFurio ZanasiArianna SavallOpera in five acts. At the Court of Gonzaga, La Musica, with her golden zither, sings the tragic tale of Orpheus, the legendary musician who witnessed twice the death of his beloved bride Euridice.
- DirectorMatteo RicchettiStarsDietrich HenschelMaria Grazia SchiavoSonia PrinaThe Mantua Orfeo is the culmination of a long process that saw the gradual acceptance of pastoral fables, comedies, and tragedies in imitation of classical models, offering special musical elements to delight the listener. The novelty lay not only in the type of drama involved, but also in the manner of song, which favoured the accompanied monody. Solo voice singing, so extolled and theorized within the intense conceptual debates of Giovanni Bardi's Florentine academy, likely derives from a yearning for classicism, and for a recovery of Greek theatre - but is made contemporary through the principle of the comprehensibility of speech, which had many advocates. The "Tale of Orpheus" was written as a musical opera; the libretto by Alessandro Striggio assumes a knowledge of Rinuccini's tale. Whether openly or in more concealed fashion, Monteverdi makes use of topoi or practices in common use during his day: trumpet flourishes as signals, a narrative in dactylic rhythm, and dissonant intervals to emphasize struggle or grief. These are immediately recognizable even to a "common" public. At the same time though, he introduces complete innovations not only in the expository elements of profane song, but also in its other aspects: the exhaustive attention given to the collocation of words, the vibrant quality of the rhythmic pulse, bold dissonances, the harmonies chosen, and the wavelike melodic line.
- DirectorDave HeatherStarsBenjamin LuxonJanet BakerRichard Lewis
- DirectorJohn VernonStarsHugues CuénodOwen BranniganFederico Davià
- DirectorFrançois RoussillonStarsBernard RichterStéphanie d'OustracEmmanuelle de NégriAtys is a 'tragédie en musique' in a prelude and five acts. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, January 10, 1676. Although this opera was met with indifference by the Parisian audience, it became known as "the king's opera" because of King Louis XIV's love for it.
- DirectorJonathan HaswellStarsLucy CroweSarah ConnollyAnita Watson
- DirectorYvon GéraultStarsPaul GreenwoodDavid KillickSylvestra Le TouzelMistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- DirectorBrian LargeStarsDavid WalkerDeborah YorkDavid Daniels