Gluck: Orphee Et Euridice - Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2022) [Blu-ray]

Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice is a masterpiece of the operatic canon, inspired by one of the most mysterious and cruel stories in Greek mythology. The gods allow Orpheus to descend into the underworld to revive his beloved wife Eurydice, but on condition that he must not look at her while returning. This production from Florence re-imagines this myth as a story for our times. It explores each character anew, highlighting the music and text as a more sophisticated psychological thriller than previously imagined, creating a moving and transformative narrative with which we can all identify.

Recorded at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Sala Zubin Mehta, 21 April 2022

‘Version of Paris, version for tenor, on stage continuously for the 105 minutes of the show all in one breath with Gatell interpreter of great musical intelligence and, with a full, beautiful voice that here diligently bends (and colours with an unexpected melancholy) to the Gluck‘s writing. As do Anna Prohaska, tormented and grieving Eurydice, and Sara Blanch, a very musical Amour.’ – Avvenire

‘…. intimate dimension of the show with an essentially modern but sober realization, centered on scenic actions that have created choreographic dance theater movements involving even the singers themselves.’ – sipario.it