Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

99 mins | Documentary, Music | Dec. 1, 2000

Film recording of Robert Wilson’s stage production of the opera by Gluck. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz’s 1859 revision of Gluck’s opera “Orphée et Eurydice” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soloists Magdalena Kožená, Madeline Bender and Patricia Petibon are accompanied by Gardiner’s regular chorus, The Monteverdi Choir, and the 19th-century period instruments of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

99 mins | Documentary, Music | Dec. 1, 2000

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Film recording of Robert Wilson’s stage production of the opera by Gluck. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz’s 1859 revision of Gluck’s opera “Orphée et Eurydice” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soloists Magdalena Kožená, Madeline Bender and Patricia Petibon are accompanied by Gardiner’s regular chorus, The Monteverdi Choir, and the 19th-century period instruments of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
Producers
Original title Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Directors Robert Wilson, Brian Large
Writers

Cast

Magdalena Kožená

as Orphée

Madeline Bender

as Eurydice

Patricia Petibon

as Amour

John Eliot Gardiner

as Conductor