FULL Orpheus (Telemann) Drottningholm 2025 Florie Valiquette, Yannick Debus, Lauren Lodge-Campbell

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Orpheus  
• Composer: Telemann George Philipp   
• Libretto: based on Michel Duboullay's Orphée (1690)    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Drottningholm Slottsteater, Sweden  
• Recorded: August 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Florie Valiquette, Yannick Debus, Lauren Lodge-Campbell, Hasnaa Bennani, Rodrigo Carreto, Josefine Mindus, Lisandro Abadie, Rémy Brès-Feuillet, Lauren Lodge-Campbell
• Conductor: Francesco Corti  
• Orchestra: The Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra  
• Chorus: The Drottningholm Theatre Chorus  
• Stage Director: Elena Barbalich   
• Stage Designer: Christer Nilsson  
• Costume Designer: Anna Kjellsdotter  
• Lighting Designer: Morgan Brown  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: SVT  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Orpheus (full title: Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe oder Orpheus, The Wonderful Constancy of Love, or Orpheus) is an opera in three acts by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first performed in a concert version at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg on 9 March 1726. The anonymous libretto is based on the 1690 opera Orphée by Michel Duboullay, originally set by the French composer Louis Lully. Most of the work is in German but it also contains passages in French and Italian drawn from famous operas by Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully. The music to these words is Telemann’s own, however. The manuscript score of Telemann’s Orpheus was not rediscovered until the late 20th century.

  Synopsis

  Act 1
  Queen Orasia of Thrace is in love with Orpheus, but he rejects her in favour of Eurydice. The queen plots to kill Eurydice as she is picking flowers in a garden. Orpheus tells his friend Eurimedes he is tired of life at Orasia’s court and flees to the countryside. Eurydice is bitten by a snake and dies in Orpheus’s arms.
  Act 2
  Orpheus descends to the underworld to rescue Eurydice. He charms the king of the underworld, Pluto, with his music. The god allows him to return with Eurydice on condition he does not look back at her until they have reached the land of the living once more. Orpheus fails in this task and Eurydice is lost to him.
  Act 3
  Orasia believes that, with Eurydice gone, Orpheus will love her. But the grieving Orpheus rejects her advances. Orasia is furious and vows revenge. She urges on the followers of Bacchus to kill Orpheus. Orasia repents of what she has done when she sees a vision of the dead Orpheus reunited with Eurydice. In despair, she kills herself.

  Quoted from Wikipedia

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