L'Orfeo

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Opera

Favola in Musica by Claudio Monteverdi
In Italian with German surtitles

His song tells of the power of music: when the mythical singer Orpheus loses his bride Eurydice in a tragic accident on their wedding day, he takes up battle with the powers of the underworld. And conquers them with the means of song. The success story of opera began over 400 years ago with Claudio Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo". It continues to captivate audiences to this day, touching, moving and inspiring people by making the seemingly unspeakable directly tangible. After all, it is about nothing less than the great questions of humanity: What are our limits and how can we overcome them? Can love and hope conquer death? Monteverdi experiments with an incredibly rich range of instruments, but above all with all the means of the voice, which he leads from virtuoso solo singing to magical ensemble sound. The baroque orchestra "Il Gusto Barocco" under the direction of Jörg Halubek has already proven several times how captivating this music is. In no time at all, their gripping performance turned the Mannheim audience into true Monteverdi fans. Director Markus Bothe, whose production of the "Homecoming of Ulysses" marked the beginning of the Monteverdi cycle in spring 2017, now brings it to a close with "L'Orfeo" in Schwetzingen. This content has been machine translated.