Prom 25: Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Donald Macleod presents Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir.
John Eliot Gardiner returns to the Proms with Monteverdi's groundbreaking opera in which the legendary musician Orpheus journeys to Hades to try to reclaim his beloved Eurydice. With the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Krystian Adam (Orpheus) and Mariana Flores (Eurydice)
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Donald Macleod
7.10pm:
Proms Extra
7.30pm:
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Orpheus .... Krystian Adam (tenor)
Eurydice/Hope .... Mariana Flores (soprano)
Music/Messenger .... Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Charon/Pluto .... Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Persephone .... Francesca Boncompagni (soprano)
Apollo/Shepherd 1 .... Andrew Tortise (tenor)
Nymph .... Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano)
Shepherd 2/Spirit 2/Echo .... Gareth Treseder (tenor)
Spirit 1 .... Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Shepherd 3 .... James Hall (counter-tenor)
Shepherd 4/Spirit 3 .... David Shipley (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Monteverdi's Orfeo is the first great opera ? the moment when psychological truth and musical virtuosity came together to tell a story of love, loss and the power of art. Sir John Eliot Gardiner ? making the first of two appearances this year, tonight with the English Baroque Soloists ? transforms the Royal Albert Hall into the 17th-century Mantuan court of the Gonzagas with some of Monteverdi's loveliest melodies and most colourful instrumental writing, bringing the tale of Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice to fresh musical life.
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