Already this weekend, July 17, at 6.30 pm in the Bauska Culture Center Early Music Festival “Long live the Courland!“The program will feature for the first time the magnificent Italian baroque composer Antonio Sartorio ‘s comic opera” Orpheus “(1672) in the historical candlelight.
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The opera “Orpheus” will be performed by the Independent Baroque Opera House “Collegium RIGA“conducted by Maris Kupčs.
“For centuries, the myth of Orpheus, who frees his beloved Eiridiki from the underground kingdom by singing and lyre sounds, is commonly known in the work of Claudio Monteverdi. The Italian composer Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680) interesting and atypical characters, such as a gypsy in Greece, would teach the centaur Hyron, the old nanny Erinda, “the organizers write about the staged work.
The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Salvatore in Venice in 1672. This is a time when, as theaters become more and more accessible to a wider audience, the boundaries between the aristocracy and the lower strata audience are being broken, the creators of the production remind.
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The opera will be performed by the independent baroque opera house “Collegium Musicum Riga”. Soloists – Ilze Grēvele-Skaraine (soprano), Monta Martinsone (soprano), Rūta Vosyliūtė (soprano, Lithuania), Ieva Pļaviņa (soprano), Anete Viļuma (soprano), Simona Jocevičiūtė (soprano, Lithuania), Silvija Sūna (mezzo-soprano), Ansis Bētiņš (tenor), Edgars Skarbulis (bass), Krišs Pozemkovskis (bass). Baroque orchestra “Collegium Musicum Riga”, baroque dance group led by choreographer Guna Ezermale, historical gestures specialist Katerina Antonenko (United Kingdom / Russia), costume designer Jelena Forste, set designer Artūrs Arnis, conductor and artistic director – Maris Kups. Herolds – actor Ivo Martinson.
Short libretto: Aristotle is Orpheus’ brother, and he too is in love with Eurydice, which makes Orpheus jealous. Since Aristotle has rejected the love of Autonoya, the daughter of King Cadma of Thebes, she is forced to disguise himself as a gypsy and asks for the help of Achilles and Hercules. The jealous Orpheus plans to kill Euridike in the forest, but when trying to escape from Ariste, Euridike climbs a snake and dies. Orpheus travels to the underground world to revive the Eurydice. Pluto, the ruler of the underground world, is defeated by his singing and he is released by the Eurydice on the condition that Orpheus will not look at him until they have reached the living earth. But Orpheus turns and Eurydice is lost again.
Tickets can be purchased “Ticket Paradise” box offices.
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