Title

L’Orfeo. Favola in Musica

Composer

Monteverdi

Text

Alessandro Striggio, after Ovid

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Venue and Dates

Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris

14, 15, 16, 17 April 1999

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Conductor

Rene Jacobs

Director/

Choreographer

Trisha Brown

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Performer(s)

Orfeo – tenor:

Simon Keenlyside (14, 16)

Carlo Allemano (15, 17)

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Euridice/Eco (soprano) : Patrizia Bicciré

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La Messaggiera/La Musica (soprano): Graciela Oddone

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Proserpina/Ninfa (soprano) : Marissa Martins

La Speranza (contralto) : Christophe Laporte

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Plutone (bass) : Tómas Tómasson

Caronte (bass) : Paul Gérimon

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Apollo (tenor) : Palle Knudsen

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Ninfa (soprano) : Anne Cambier, Martina Dike

Pastori, Spriti : Christophe Laporte, René Linnenbank, Paul Gérimon, Johannes Chum, John Bowen

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Dance Ensemble, Trisha Brown Company

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Production

Roland Aeschlimann (sets and costumes), Gerd Meier (Lighting).

Co-produced by Festival des Arts, International dArt Lyrique d’Aix-en-Province, Trisha Brown Company

Label

Offered by House of Opera:

http://store.operapassion.com/index.html

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Click below for the interview Simon gave within the documentary, La dernier chant d’Orphée

La dernier chant d’Orphée

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What the critics say

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