Released on: 1998-05-13
L'Orfeo, Favola in musica
First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdiâs LâORFEO seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and RenĂ© Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement â described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being âas close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seenâ. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in TĂ©lĂ©rama: âIn the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.â For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: âThis Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . RenĂ© Jacobsâs conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.â
