After singing the role of the old nurse Lenia in Eliogabalo, tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro is back to the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam) this time in the clothes of Ireno and Apolline in La Morte d'Orfeo by S. Landi (1590-1639). This new production will be conducted by Christophe Rousset (with Les Talens Lyriques) and staged by Pierre Audi (which will be the last staging in Amsterdam as director of the DNO).
In this opera, the story of Orpheus is continued where Monteverdi left off. The tragi-comic pastorale La morte d’Orfeo is a far less well-known work on the Orpheus theme, but gives a deeper insight into the real meaning of the Orphean myth. And like Monteverdi's music, the voice of Emiliano Gonzalez Toro will be ideal and touching.
For the rest of the season, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro sings the role of Mercurio, in La concordia de' pianeti by A. Caldara under the baton of Andrea Marcon in Basel (Martinskirche) before giving the same program in Amsterdam (this time at the Concertgebouw).
He will then find his role-fetish Arnalta in C. Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Zurich Opera.
Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam)
From 23 to 26 March 2018
