Composer Matthew Aucoin, playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Mary Zimmerman team on this retelling of the Underworld myth, premiering at L.A. Opera before traveling to The Met in New York next year
This L.A. Opera world premiere unites the"genius" trio of composer Matthew Aucoin, playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Mary Zimmerman to retell the timeless Underworld myth.
The L.A. Opera artist-in-residence's fugue-like intro prefaces a happy beach scene where Orpheus and Eurydice frolic on the eve of their marriage. Meanwhile, in the Underworld, her recently deceased father writes his thoughts to his daughter on her wedding day. His letter finds its way to Hades who uses it to lure Eurydice to his penthouse. There she suffers a fall and arrives in the Underworld via an elevator in which a rain shower washes away her memory.
By doing so, she raises a whole new set of questions. Why, when on the threshold of rebirth, did Eurydice choose to die a second time? Is a song, as the libretto has it, "two dead bodies rubbing under the covers to keep warm"? And is loss the nature of love? Making his L.A. Opera debut, Joshua Hopkins as Orpheus often sings in tandem with countertenor John Holiday, combining to create a halo effect to suggest Orpheus' singular musical talents. But it is red-hot soprano Danielle de Niese in the starring role who is the beating heart of the story. She lives up to her promise at the end of the first act with her ecstatic solo about loving an artist, mirrored by her second act climactic message to Orpheus' next wife on how to care for him.
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