L'Orfeo

Orpheus sings, and the world comes into tune. His voice tames wild beasts, charms the gods and suspends the course of fate. His song is a link between earth and stars, between man and nature; it consoles sorrow and cultivates joy, bewitches the gods and raises the dead.

From Eden to the Underworld, this myth of love and loss still speaks to us. It evokes the fragile beauty of the moment, the foolish hope of holding on to that which flees, the power of song in the face of silence. Here, music doesn't just tell a fable: it shapes the world and rewrites history.

Under the direction of Pauline Bayle, this original fresco takes on a refined, solemn and symbolist tone. Nothing unnecessary, everything essential. The stage becomes a land of light and shadow, a place of metamorphoses where the voice, sometimes caressing and sometimes crying out, unfolds in all its splendor. An intense ritual, a celebration of human song - and the mystery it carries within.

Sung in Italian, with French surtitles.

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