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L'Orfeo State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 25.Oct 2026 19:00 replace me !L'Orfeo State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 28.Oct 2026 19:00 replace me !L'Orfeo State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 31.Oct 2026 19:00 replace me !L'Orfeo State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 03.Nov 2026 replace me !The happiness of the singer Orfeo and his Euridice is short-lived: on the day of their wedding, Euridice is killed by a snake bite.
Orfeo refuses to accept fate and decides to descend into the underworld to bring Euridice back. He uses his singing to penetrate the realm of the dead and persuades its rulers, Proserpina and Pluto, to release Euridice. However, Orfeo is given the condition that he must not look around for her during their ascent together. On the way, however, Orfeo has doubts as to whether Euridice is really following him, so he turns back. His beloved then disappears - this time forever.
Director Tom Morris took the old idea of a communal courtly feast seriously and created an atmosphere for the production that gives the audience the impression of being a guest at a wedding and being involved in the colorful theatrical event.Orfeo contains many different ingredients: the madrigal art of the late Renaissance, influences from the music of the French court, the first attempts at opera by the Florentine Camerata as well as all kinds of military and folk music. The framework for Orfeo was provided by the form of tragedy, which was used as a pretext to stage an elaborate courtly celebration and at the same time to make a dramatic-musical statement. Here, too, a wide variety of ingredients were used: scenery, stage machinery, polyphonic elements, dances, purely instrumental parts, recitatives and detailed stage characters.in 2022, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo was performed for the first time at the Vienna State Opera. The production was part of a cycle of all three of the composer's surviving operas realized at this venue for the first time and at the same time a tribute to the eminent influence that this work, first performed in 1607, had on the entire history of music. In October and November, the title role will be embodied by Rolando Villazón, an artist whose versatility, infectious passion for music and musical theater and sparkling creativity have enriched the international opera world for almost a quarter of a century.Order your tickets for the Vienna State Opera and book your tickets now at viennaticket.at.
(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
