After the success of last season at Nancy and Versailles (teaser), Rossi's Orfeo is back this season for 8 performances at Versailles, Bordeaux and Caen (3 to 24 March 2017).
On
2 March, 1647, Mazarin performed the first opera in France:
Orfeo, composed by Luigi Rossi, in Paris, at the Palais Royal, staged by the Great engineer Giacomo Torelli.
Unjustly
forgotten, notably because of its very ambitious dimensions and its
lack of musical sources, it is here a French scenic recreation, around a distribution bringing together French and Italian
singers, among young talents already confirmed as Judith van Wanroij,
Marc Mauillon, Giulia Semenzato, Francesca Aspromonte and also the
foremost artisans of the Italian repertoire of the 17th century, such as
Dominique Visse or Victor Torres. A musical festival worthy of the splendor of the court of France!
Production: Opéra national de Lorraine.
Coproduction: Opéra Royal – Château de Versailles Spectacles • Opéra national de Bordeaux • Théâtre de Caen • Centre de musique baroque de Versailles.
3 and 4 march 2017 at the Opéra Royal de Versailles
Les 11, 12, 14 t 15 march 2017 at the Opéra national de Bordeaux
23 and 24 march 2017 at Théâtre de Caen