Orphée et Eurydice à Lyon

By Elodie Martinez, 17 March 2015

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Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 14 March 2015

Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

Opéra de Lyon

Enrico Onofri, Conductor

David Marton, Director

Christian Friedländer, Set Designer

Pola Kardum, Costume Designer

Maîtrise de l'Opéra de Lyon, Amore

Elena Galitskaya, Euridice

Christopher Ainslie, Orfeo

Victor von Halem, Orfeo

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

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Stéphane Lelièvre, 21st March

The Opéra de Lyon presents Britten’s masterpiece for the first time: a triumph, both visually and musically, which is received with great enthusiasm by the audience.

****1

All that glitters: Barrie Kosky's Coq d'or opens in Lyon

Mark Pullinger, 20th May

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon.

*****

Seeing double: Bluebeard’s Castle at Opéra de Lyon

Zoltán Szabó, 26th March

A controversial new production of Bluebeard's Castle by Andriy Zholdak in which Bartók's opera is played out twice...

**111

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David Karlin, 24th August

Herheim pulls us in unexpected directions, makes us laugh and makes us think as we enjoy fine Rossinian music and singing in Opéra de Lyon's production.

****1

Marton turns Don Giovanni into a wrist-slashing wimp

Jonathan Sutherland, 25th June

A disappointing new production by David Marton at Opéra de Lyon.

**111

Darkness and grandeur in Christophe Honoré's Don Carlos

Mark Pullinger, 17th March

A (nearly) complete performance of the original French version of Don Carlos forms the centrepiece of Daniele Rustioni's Verdi Festival in Lyon.

****1

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Elodie Martinez

Actuellement en doctorat de Littérature et Langue française à Lyon, Elodie Martinez travaille sur une thèse interdisciplinaire portant sur les représentations de Médée dans l'ensemble des arts. Passionnée par l'opéra depuis quelques années, elle étudie le violon et le chant. Elle est également rédactrice pour le site www.toutelaculture.com dans les rubriques "Musique Classique", "Opéra" et "Livres".

Un Orphée et Eurydice onirique à l’Opéra de Lyon