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Stefano Landi – La morte d’Orfeo / DNO
Stefano Landi’s La morte d’Orfeo staged by Pierre Audi at the Dutch National Opera in 2018 features Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset.
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Tragicomedia pastorale in five acts (1619)
Stefano Landi was an influential early opera composer, and La morte d’Orfeo is regarded as a milestone in the development of the genre. The narrative starts where Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo ends, taking us through the remaining adventures of Orpheus in the underworld. Beaten to death and torn apart by the fearsome maenads, Orpheus survives as a wandering soul and is finally reincarnated as a star in the sky. Landi succeeded in turning Greek tragedy into timeless music-drama, the starting point of all opera, and Seen and Heard International declared that it had “never before encountered such technical perfection” in Pierre Audi’s Amsterdam production.
Teti / Nisa / Lincastro / Euridice CECILIA MOLINARI
Fato / Fileno RENATO DOLCINI
Ebro / Giove ALEXANDER MIMINOSHVILI
Aurora / Fosforo GAIA PETRONE
Tre Euretti CECILIA MOLINARI / ROSINA FABIUS / MAGDALENA PLUTA
Orfeo JUAN FRANCISCO GATELL
Mercurio / Bacco KACPER SZELĄŻEK
Ireno / Apolline EMILIANO GONZALES TORO
Furore / Caronte SALVO VITALE
Calliope MAGDALENA PLUTA
LES TALENS LYRIQUES
Conductor CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET
Stage Director PIERRE AUDI
Video Director MISJEL VERMEIREN
Filmed on 23 and 26 March 2018 at Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam
A coproduction of Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam and François Roussillon et Associés
[2.110661 / NBD0111V]
Total playing time: 111 minutes · Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Japanese, Korean
DVD: NTSC 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 · DVD 9 · Region: 0
BD: HD 16:9 · PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 · BD 50 · Region: A, B, C
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