Organization

Conductor

Valery Platonov

Stage director

Georgy Isaakyan

Set designer

Ernst Heidebrecht

Lighting designer

Sergei Martynov

Singer

Soprano

Tatiana Poluektova

Music

Nadezhda Babintseva

The messenger

Natalia Buklaga

The nymph

Newspaper

Tatiana Kaminskaya

Hope

Tenor

Sergey Vlasov

First shepherd

Paweł Erdman

First spirit

Baritone

Eduard Morozov

Third shepherd

Oleg Ivanov

Fourth shepherd

Vladimir Taisaev

Bass

Third spirit

Danis Khuzin

Second shepherd

Alexander Egorov

Alexey Svetov

Orfeo

Viktor Shapovalov

Second spirit

Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre

Italian

L'Orfeo -  (Orfeo)

Perm

Russia

Main stage

L'Orfeo Monteverdi

Public

Russian

Approved

The opera was written in 1607. This version was first performed in Perm in 2007. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes including 1 interval

Exactly 400 years elapsed between the first performance of Monteverdi’s opera and its première in Perm. Orfeo was one of the first operas in history, and has managed to survive for centuries. The story of the ancient Singer has been one of the most popular subjects in opera for hundreds of years. 

According to legend, Orpheus’s singing tamed wild beasts and made rocks move. Eurydice, Orpheus’s wife, died from a snake bite. The strength of the hero’s love and the sounds of his lyre touched the gods of the underworld, and they allowed him to go down into the kingdom of shadows and carry Eurydice away. However, he was not permitted even to glance at her on his way back to the world of the living. 

The singer did not obey this condition, and lost his loved one forever.

Only 130 people can see this production on the same evening, as the audience seats are situated on the stage itself. This original use of space and the director’s unexpected concept won the production a Golden Mask.

English

Orfeo by Monteverdi, From (2012/2013), Directed by Georgy Isaakyan,, Conductor Valery Platonov, Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm, Russia

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

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