Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Brian Large
2000-12-01


10
99 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Magdalena Kožená Orphée Unowned
Madeline Bender Eurydice Unowned
Patricia Petibon Amour Unowned
John Eliot Gardiner Conductor Unowned