René Jacobs, Collegium Vocale Gent - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2006)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 115 min + 52 min | 7,20+3,11 Gb (DVD9+DVD5)
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Sub: Italiano, Francais, English, Deutsch, Nederlands | Recorded: 1998
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 115 min + 52 min | 7,20+3,11 Gb (DVD9+DVD5)
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Sub: Italiano, Francais, English, Deutsch, Nederlands | Recorded: 1998
First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in Télérama: ‘In the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.’ For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: ‘This Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . René Jacobs’s conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.’
Performer:
Orfeo – Simon Keenlyside
Euridice/La Musica/Eco - Juanita Lascarro
La Messaggiera – Graciela Oddone
Proserpina/Ninfa – Martina Dike
La Speranza – Stephen Wallace
Plutone – Tómas Tómasson
Caronte - Paul Gérimon
Apollo – Mauro Utzeri
Ninfa – Anne Cambier
Pastori/Spiriti - Stephen Wallace, René Linnenbank, Paul Gérimon, Yann Beuron, John Bowen
Trisha Brown Company
Concerto Vocale
Collegium Vocale Gent
Conductor – René Jacobs