Opera Cake (the
blogger) calls La Monnaie's new Orphée et Eurydice "simply devastating," and says we need to see in person. While OC did not reveal why (but promised a fuller review soon), I've a feeling some of it has to do with the projections (see below, and other photos at La Monnaie's site.)
Unfortunately, many of us in the U.S. can't pop over to Brussels within the next few weeks. So we won't be able see it in
person. We will have get by with watching it online. And we can do that on-demand for about
20 days, starting this coming Wednesday, July 9.
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Orphée et Eurydice
Christoph W. Gluck/Hector Berlioz
Orphée Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Eurydice
Sabine
Devieilhe
Music
direction Hervé
Niquet
Staging,
set design, lighting & costumes Romeo Castellucci
Bollocks, it's sold out. Serves me right to faff about it. Thing is I can't remember if I've heard Sd'O in anything.
ReplyDeleteI've often waffled and ended up missing a program. Someone once said something about "he who hesitates..."
DeleteShe appears on DVDs of Rameau's Les Paladins and Lully's Atys with Bill Christie. In the former she rather rocks a pair of red booty shorts. She can sing too!
DeleteWould love to watch, but how does one access this? Can you post a link? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi there. It should be accessible starting July 9th via the Orphée link provided in the post.
DeleteOoh! Thanks for this, Rob. I can never pass up the chance to see/hear Gluck. Have been keen to hear more of Stéphanie d'Oustrac, too, after really enjoying her performance in that fun production of Les Paladins from 2004.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. I am looking forward to it, too!
DeleteIt's the one with the paralyzed patient, Rob. They connect the performance with the locked-in syndrome patient live while Orfeo & Euridice try to communicate across the life-death divide. I posted some good videos on Twitter that La Monnaie made about it. It's an extraordinary event.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the additional detail. I looked at a few of the videos on the La Monnaie site. Unfortunately, I only get the gist of information rendered in French with Dutch subtitles or in Dutch with French subtitles, being less than conversant in either language! (Although the combination gives me a chance for more comprehension than if there were no subtitles at all!)
DeleteYeah, some of these houses should add English-language subtitled videos, I'm sure they can afford it and it would increase their digital (and actual, I'm sure) audience manifold.
DeleteIt certainly would be more expedient than having the rest of the world learn French and/or Dutch and/or (fill in language you don't speak or understand here)!
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