Philippe Jaroussky | countertenor
Emőke Baráth | soprano
Ensemble Artaserse
La Storia di Orfeo told with style by Philippe Jaroussky and Emőke Baráth.
LA STORIA DI ORFEO
Monteverdi Toccata
Sartorio Sinfonia, « Cara e amabile catena », duo from L’Orfeo
Monteverdi « Rosa del Ciel... Io non diro » aria from L’Orfeo
Rossi « Mio ben, teco il tormento », « Che dolcezza », aria from L’Orfeo, Sinfonia
Cavalli Sinfonia Orione
Monteverdi « Vi ricorda o boschi ombrose », aria from L’Orfeo
Rossi « M’ami tu? », « Al imperio d’amore », aria from L’Orfeo
Sartorio « Ahimè, Numi, son morta », aria from L’Orfeo
Rossi « Lagrime, dove sete? », aria from L’Orfeo
Marini Passacaille à quatre
Sartorio « È morta Euridice », aria from L’Orfeo, Sinfonia, « Orfeo tu dormi? », aria from L’Orfeo
Monteverdi Sinfonia inferno, « Possente spirto », aria from L’Orfeo
Castello Sonate à quatre
Sartorio « Numi, che veggio», « Chiuso, ahimè, di Cocito… Rendetemi Euridice » duet and aria from L’Orfeo
Rossi « Lasciate Averno », aria extrait de L’Orfeo
With the publication three years ago of the album La storia di Orfeo, Philippe Jaroussky fulfilled a long-held dream, that of telling the myth of Orpheus through the music of three versions by Baroque musicians who had composed on this theme: Claudio Monteverdi in 1607, Luigi Rossi in 1647 and Antonio Sartorio in 1672. This original journey in the Orphic Lands, in which Philippe Jaroussky plays Orfeo, opposite Emőke Baráth as Eurydice, and the complicity of the musicians of the Artaserse Ensemble, takes the form of both a two-voice cantata and a miniature opera. “Each opera develops a part of the story: Sartorio and Rossi evoke the happiness of young lovers and the scene of the snake's bite; Monteverdi focuses on Eurydice's quest to the underworld, culminating in an aria unique in the history of opera, the magical "Possente spirto"," says the countertenor. After Erato's album, unanimously acclaimed by the press, here they are together on stage to bring the myth to life.
PRODUCTION Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
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