Orpheus and Eurydice
★★★★★
"breathes dazzling new life into Gluck’s mythology-mining Orpheus & Eurydice"
The Guardian (UK)
Edinburgh Festival Production Credits
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Laurence Cummings
Revival director: Benjamin Knapton
Chorus from Scottish Opera
Chorus director: Susannah Wapshott
Orpheus: Iestyn Davies
Eurydice / Amor: Samantha Clarke
Circa performers: Rowan Allinson, Malte Gerhardt, Lisa Goldsworthy, Jordan Hart, Gerramy Marsden, Anisa Monsour, Rosa Mordaunt, Kimberley Rossi, Lachlan Sukroo, Zachery Stephens
Production Credits
Director & set designer: Yaron Lifschitz
Conductor: Dane Lam
Costume designer: Libby McDonnell
Technical director: Jason Organ
Lighting designer: Alexander Berlage
Chorus director: Narelle French
Associate director: Heather Fairbairn
Associate circus director: Bridie Hooper
Choreography: Yaron Lifschitz, Bridie Hooper and the Circa Ensemble
Original music by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Edinburgh International Festival and Opera Australia present Opera Queensland’s production of Orpheus and Eurydice in association with Circa
Opera Queensland and Circa acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Circa joins with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and a chorus from Scottish Opera for the European premiere of this electrifying production of Gluck’s seminal opera.
Journey to the underworld and back with Opera Australia, presenting Opera Queensland’s production of Orpheus and Eurydice in association with Circa.
Heartbroken Orpheus has the chance to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld. But there's one condition: he mustn’t look at her during their long journey home. Can he resist the temptation to gaze into his true love’s eyes?
Soaring vocals, hypnotic visuals and acrobatic feats plunge you into an ancient tale of love, lust and loss. Gramophone Award-winning countertenor Iestyn Davies stars as Orpheus, haunted by visions of Eurydice, performed by Australian soprano Samantha Clarke. As Orpheus descends into insanity, Eurydice’s own descent into the underworld takes magnificent, aerial form.
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