C.W. Gluck - Orphee et Eurydice - EMI Music Germany

"Musik"
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner

"Interpreten"
Orphée - Magdalena Kozena
Eurydice - Madeline Bender
Amour - Patricia Petibon

Gluck's tragedy of love lost, found and lost again has always lent itself to powerful and iconoclastic interpretations. Here we can see 'Orphée et Eurydice' in a vital new light of authenticity and innovation at the hands of the Gluck specialist John Eliot Gardener and the acclaimed American director Robert Wilson. Working with a star cast of some of the most eloquent singer-actors of our day, with Magdalena Kozena and Madeline Bender in the title roles, Wilson makes the most of the opera's balletic possibilities to embark on a mesmerising voyage into Hades, and into the very dephts of the plight of the two ill-starred lovers.