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FULL ORPHEUS (Telemann) Tel Aviv 2022 Hadas Faran, Oded Reich, Daniela Skorka
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Orpheus (full title: Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe oder Orpheus)
- Composer: Telemann Georg Philipp
- Libretto: based on the 1690 opera Orphée by Michel Duboullay Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Zucker Hall of Heichal HaTarbut, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Recorded: October 3, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Hadas Faran, Oded Reich, Daniela Skorka, Eitan Drori, Tal Ganor, Pnini Grubner
- Conductor: YAIR POLISHOOK
- Orchestra: Orpheus Opera Ensemble
- Stage Director: SHIRIT LEE WEISS
- Stage Designer: MAYA MEIDAR MORAN
- Costume Designer: MAYA MEIDAR MORAN
- Lighting Designer: NADAV BARNEA
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Yair Polishook
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from diplomacy.co.il
With his changes in emphasis on the plot, Telemann’s “Orpheus” becomes a Baroque psychodrama, as it revolves around Orasia, Queen of Thrace, with her narcissism and obsessive love-hate personality. Totally immersed in the role, Hadas Faran, equipped with a suitably substantial voice, displayed secure handling of the bravura and soaring notes which Telemann calls for at the most dramatic moments of her tirades, as she gave potent meaning to the two Italian vengeance arias and to her final, pared-down lament in French. Telemann’s Orpheus, with his anti-hero tendency, is a character more richly complicated than Gluck’s hero as he navigates the roller coaster of love lost, won again through hardship and devotion, and finally, irrevocably lost. Baritone Oded Reich’s realization of the tragic character of Orpheus is profound and insightful, a man loved but spurned, helpless and alone in his own suffering. Reich’s acquired dramatic insight and convincingly emotional performance integrate deftly with his musical reading of each aria, served well by his stable voice and luxuriant palette of baritone colors.