LE LACRIME DI EROS (Pasticcio) Amsterdam 2024 Gyula Orendt, Jeanine De Bique, Katia Ledoux, Zachary Wilder
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: LE LACRIME DI EROS
- Composer: Pasticcio Monteverdi,, Caccini, Peri
- Libretto: various Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Main Stage, Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Recorded: 15-21 November 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Gyula Orendt, Jeanine De Bique, Katia Ledoux, Zachary Wilder
- Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
- Orchestra: Pygmalion
- Chorus: Pygmalion
- Choreographer: Nis Fee Brender
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Unitel
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Let yourself be carried away by enchanting Renaissance music and powerful portrayals of love as a suffering, a yearning, a torture. In this brand-new production, conductor Raphaël Pichon and theatre maker Romeo Castellucci, together with the musicians of Pygmalion, return to the origins of opera as an art form. Le lacrime di Eros is a visually compelling music theatre performance without a linear storyline, where love reveals its darkest side through a series of poignant scenes.
The suffering called love
In Renaissance Florence, composers, philosophers, poets, choreographers, painters and inventors joined forces to create a new art form: opera. The repertoire of Renaissance composers such as Striggio, Malvezzi, Marenzio, Peri, Caccini, Cavalieri and the young Claudio Monteverdi reveals the creativity and experimental freedom of the time. In their music, love is far from something sweetly sentimental, but carries with it a dark shadow.
In a pasticcio – a compilation of musical pieces from opera’s earliest period – Pichon and Castellucci present these dark sides of love in breathtaking fashion, as a series of ‘books’ (libri) on stage. Operating masterfully at the interface of opera with performance art and the visual arts, Romeo Castellucci creates stage imagery that bypasses the mind and speaks straight to the heart.
Quoted from Nationale Opera