Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
by Trisha Brown
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Actor: Graciela Oddone, Juanita Lascarro, Martina Dike, Rene Jacobs, Simon KeenlysideDirector: Trisha Brown
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Stereo; Dutch (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Published), Stereo
Format: Classical, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 171 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
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Movie Review: Neither opera, nor dance, but FANTASTIC!
Summary: 4 Stars
If early opera is an acquired taste, and the difficulty with acquired tastes is the acquiring of them, here is the perfect remedy. The msuic is late Renaissance-early Baroque and the melodies and harmonies are those that I would associate with the Church rather than the theatre, so it was a little strange at first, strange, but mesmerising. I put the DVD in "just for the prologue" and sat there, glued to my chair, until the messenger bringing the news of Euridyce's death fell from the stage into the pit.
This may disappoint those who watch it as opera and those who watch it as dance, but viewed with an open mind, it is amazing theatre. There are no "sets" worth speaking about. Normally, this has me shrieking for my money back, but here, backdrops and lights worked beautifully in place of conventional sets. The transitions between this world and the underworld is brilliantly done, and very gripping, and it is achieved with lighting and a partition. There is a circle in the backdrop, used brilliantly in every scene in the opera.
Like a previous reviewer, I was disappointed with the costumes. They were certainly not Greek. Perhaps they were designed for free movement since the chorus and the dancers have to keep moving most of the time. I did like the bare feet. Dancers in India always perform in bare feet, so I guess that chimed with me. Simon Keenlyside is a magnificent Orfeo, the only close rival is the Caronte and the two together are nearly overwhelming. Well, there are exceptions. Pluto and Proserpina's costumes, as well as that of Apollo are great, but then these are characters that are mostly stationary.
To sum up, an opera first performed in 1607 has been directed by a dancer from a country that did not exist when the opera was composed, and the result is magical. I am so grateful to the recording technology that allows me, sitting in India, and coming from a totally different tradition, to watch this marvellous fusion of myth, music and dance, and bring an alien myth to life for me.
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