Opéra Royal - Landi : La morte Orfeo

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Location : Salon d'Hercule

FICHE_INFO_SIMPLE_LIBELLE_DESTINATION

Place d'Armes Château de Versailles

78000

Versailles

GPS coordinates

Latitude : 48.805013

Longitude : 2.1217

BY CAR
Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
Free "Place d'armes" parking from 19:00

BY TRAIN

Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
Dreux, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet direction

Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction

Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
Rive Gauche Château direction

Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop

Event Organizer

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Phone : +33 1 30 83 78 89

Phone : +33 1 39 24 88 88

"Château de Versailles Spectacles"

Location

Salon d'Hercule

Place d'Armes Château de Versailles

78000

Versailles

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Presentation

Stéphane Fuget continues his exploration of early Italian opera, after recording the trilogy of Monteverdi operas at Versailles.

Stéphane Fuget continues his exploration of early Italian opera, after recording the trilogy of Monteverdi operas at Versailles. Following on from the latter (Orfeo, 1607), Stefano Landi's La Morte d'Orfeo (1619) sets to music the return of the hero after his failure to bring Euridice back to earth. In his grief, Orfeo renounces earthly joys. Dionysus takes offence, and delivers him to the fury of the Bacchae: he dies torn to pieces under their blows.

Alternating between the rage of Bacchus, the cruelty of his priestesses and the strange indifference of Euridice, who has drunk the water of oblivion, La Morte d'Orfeo uses musical effects to create an emotional dynamic rich in contrast, like the chiaroscuro of Caravaggesque painting: a hypnotic beauty...