Opéra Royal - Landi : La morte Orfeo

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Location : Salon d'Hercule

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Place d'Armes Château de Versailles
78000
Versailles
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.805013
Longitude : 2.1217
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Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
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Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
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Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction

Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
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Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop
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Location
Salon d'Hercule
Place d'Armes Château de Versailles
78000
Versailles

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...

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