Renovado Orfeo: Monteverdi a través de la danza de Sasha Waltz

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 21 November 2022

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“la capacidad de conjugar la música … de una forma dinámica y envolvente a través de la danza”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 20 November 2022

Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318

Teatro Real

Leonardo García-Alarcón, Conductor

Sasha Waltz, Director

Alexander Schwarz, Set Designer

Bernd Skodzig, Costume Designer

Martin Hauk, Lighting Designer

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Georg Nigl, Orfeo

Julie Roset, Euridice, La musica

Charlotte Hellekant, La speranza, La messaggiera

Luciana Mancini, Proserpina

Konstantin Wolff, Plutone

Alex Rosen, Caronte

Julián Millán, Apollo, Eco

Cécile Kempenaers, Ninfa, Pastore 1

Leandro Marziotte, Pastore 2

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Vocalconsort Berlin

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In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.