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Stefano Landi (1587-1639) La Morte d'Orfeo (1619) Pastoral tragicomedy in five acts on a libretto by Stefano Landi, created in Padua in 1619.<br><br> Juan Sancho Orfeo<br> Hasnaa Bennani First euretto, Euridice<br> Paul Figuier Mercurio, Bacco<br> Eva Zaïcik Terzo euretto, Calliope<br> Claire Lefilliâtre Teti, Nisa<br> Anaïs Yvoz Aurora, Lincastro<br> Floriane Hasler Secondo euretto, Fosforo<br> Vlad Crosman Fato, Fileno<br> Alessandro Ravasio Furore, Caronte<br> Marco Angioloni Ireno, Apolline<br><br> The Epics<br> Stéphane Fuget Harpsichord, organ and direction<br><br> Stéphane Fuget continues his exploration of early Italian operas, having recorded Monteverdi's opera trilogy in Versailles. Following on from Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), Stefano Landi's La Morte d'Orfeo (1619) sets to music the hero's return after his failure to bring Eurydice back to earth.<br> Consumed by his grief, Orfeo renounces earthly joys. Dionysus is offended by this, and delivers him to the fury of the Bacchantes: he dies torn to pieces by their blows.<br><br> Alternating between the rage of Bacchus, the cruelty of his priestesses, and the strange indifference of Euridice after she drank the water of oblivion, La Morte d'Orfeo uses musical effects to create a rich and contrasting emotional dynamic, much like the chiaroscuro of Caravaggesque painting: a hypnotic beauty...<br><br> A co-production of the Royal Opera and the Palace of Versailles, Les Épopées