El Orfeo de Claudio Monteverdi, versión de Jordi Savall, con Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial y solistas. Todo un portento de interpretación operística y una versión referencial monteverdiana.
I had the pleasure of seeing Maestro Savall in concert not too long ago. Unlike his amazing entrance here, he walked on stage casually a few minutes before to tune his gamba. People quieted down, surprised to see him, but he just smiled at everyone and started tuning. The concert was full of laughs and good music; the musicians basically just jammed with each other for two hours! He knows how to make a moment magical when it counts, but overall he is so unpretentious, and instead knows he’s proven himself worthy of all the praise he gets through decades of hard work and beautiful music. He is truly an international treasure.
Ok... THIS here explains how this piece made the world fall in love with opera and left it ever craving for it since! I've never seen a more wholesome presentation of this sublime art.
Hundreds of positive comments and not a single negative one! How rare! But well deserved by this masterpiece of music and great performance by all!!! Bravo!
Jordi Savall is the BEST Early Music conductor of all, and this production is FABULOUS from first note to last and from first scene to last, a feast for the eyes and ears!
Amo mucho el Orfeo monteverdiano y lo escuché muchas veces: pero esta ediciòn las superas a todas las que conocì! Perfectas las voces, perfecta la direcciòn, perfecta la regia, perfecta la escenografia!
Monteverdi and Savall! whats not to like! That entrance - cloak billowing - that was class in a glass, and old Pedro in the high balcony keeping his eye on things, keeping the beat. He's the schiz.
What a sublime artistic production down to every detail. The set and backgrounds, the choreography and dancing, the acting and emotion, are as powerful as the music and singing. As a baroque novice this is utterly transcendent to me. I can’t believe my life is more than half done and I’m just now discovering this. To think, there are people who think music has advanced simply because a computer can be told to copy this. Long live Jordi Savall.
Conoscevo l'Orfeo di Monteverdi praticamente a memoria ma Savall è riuscito a farmelo sentire come fosse la prima volta e un mare in tempesta ha spumeggiato nel profondo della mia anima. Quest'opera è come l'affresco della Cappella Sistina: impossibile fare di meglio.
I knew the whole Monteverdi Orpheus in my memory but Savall was so bloody able to give me the truly sensation to face this opera for the very first time and a roaring ocean falled into my soul. Orpheus is like the Sistine Chapel affresco: it is impossible to realize something better.
"L´Orfeo" de Monteverdi es una maravilla, lo conoci hace ya mas de 20 años, y cada vez que lo vuelvo a escuchar me gusta mas. Buena parte de lo mejor del ser humano esta en la belleza de la musica. Gracias Jordi Savall, moltes gracies.
I just attended the Orfeo with Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina in Cremona Teatro Ponchielli. STUNNING! Dantone is a genius and his orchestra on top!
I keep coming back to this. The music is so strong and healthy. The performance is great and insightful. There is a simplicity and self-evidence about all this that is unforgettable.
Incredibili gli interpreti e magistrale la direzione del Maestro Savall: un rigore filologico e un rispetto dello stile monteverdiano che non hanno eguali.
Savall and especially the drummer in the balcony look to me like people from the Baroque. Sorry to be trivial. The Baroque is rapidly becoming my favourite period, especially when played as it originally was instead of being modernised.
Gracias Caballerito21. En medio de una estruendosa fanfarria de bronces nos sorprende el Prólogo con el acceso de Savall y sus "alas" negras, seguido por esa cámara detrás que velozmente nos conduce al epicentro de primera música operática de inspiración pagana, lo que continúa estará siempre a la altura de este gran maestro catalán... Una puesta en escena perfecta, ajustada y solemne. Salve Montserrat!
Un immense bravo à Jordi Savall et tous ses musiciens et chanteurs dans le souvenir spécial de sa si regrettée Monserrat Figueras ! Les interprètes : - Montserrat Figueras (La Música) - Furio Zanasi (Orfeo) - Arianna Savall (Eurídice) - Sara Mingardo (La Mensajera) - Cécile van de Sant (La Esperanza) - Antonio Abete (Caronte) - Adriana Fernández (Proserpina) - Daniele Carnovich (Plutón) - Fulvio Bettini (Apolo) - Marília Vargas (Ninfa) - Francesc Garrigosa, Carlos Mena, Gerd Türk, Iván García (Pastores / Espíritus)
+amine el boujjoufi Not simply by a man. By a priest. And it was performed in a church. A Hellenic mythology subject. Can you think of any church that would allow this today? We say our age is better, but I can't help it to have doubts about that. Sometimes, it seems people were more open-minded back then.
+Stelios Katsoulis I think they knew how to recognize which subject or story contains some part of holiness, transcendence. I think in those times virtue and spiritual life was more important than today and who talks about virtue talks about ancient greeks. They are our masters in a lot of points. Sadly today religion is most of the time rather political than metaphysical. Sorry if i don't express myself clearly i am not an English speaker.
+Stelios Katsoulis To be fair, in the Middle Ages (and later as well, I presume) the figure of Orpheus was associated with Christ, since Orpheus went into the underworld to liberate his wife.
I know, right? xD Yeah, tbh I think they just imposed a load of shrieky conventions to opera generally after this time to make it sound more pretentious! Liked the Magic Flute pun, btw (I see what you did there)
bellississima interpretación. Si así era en el siglo xvii, no era tan mala de todo la vida. Gracias, Jordi Savall por esta magnificente interpretaciól del orfeo!
This great performance of this great opera has only one downside. It only lasts for two hours ;-( Luckily we can hear and watch it again and again and again :-) Thank you for posting it. Grazie! ¡Gracias!
Genial, maravilloso, simplemente perfecto. La aria de possente spirto compite perfectamente con la versión de Nigel Rogers, que yo creía difícil de superar su calidad de interpretación.
2017 Claudio Monteverdi 430 ans nous séparent né le 15 mai 1587 , compositeur de génie prolifique , il nous laisse son oeuvre qui comporte de multiples merveilles je propose à l’écoute sa première oeuvre scénique . L’Orfeo. En 1607, soit sept ans seulement après l'Eurydice de Peri, il composa sa première œuvre scénique, l’Orfeo, sur un livret d'Alessandro Striggio, et empruntant au même canevas mythologique : la fable d'Orphée et d'Eurydice. L'ouvrage fut représenté avec un grand succès dans une salle du palais des Gonzague, ajoutant comme c'était la coutume, au faste du carnaval annuel de Mantoue. L’Orfeo est caractérisé par une grande intensité dramatique et par une instrumentation vivante, transmises grâce à deux éditions luxueuses successives ; fait rarissime à l'époque, et dont ne bénéficièrent aucun des ouvrages dramatiques suivants de Monteverdi. Pour la première fois, un compositeur indique précisément la place de chaque instrument, et dans certains cas (Possente spirto du troisième acte) la réalisation instrumentale de chaque partie. Il s'agit de la première composition de grande ampleur dont l’instrumentation requise pour la création nous soit parvenue. L’intrigue y est dépeinte au moyen de tableaux musicaux contrastés. Avec cet opéra, Monteverdi a, sinon créé, du moins donné ses lettres de noblesse à un style de musique entièrement nouveau qui fut appelé le dramma per musica. Extrait de : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi
I LOVE THIS!!! Jordi Savall brings Music into a New-Life via "Pre-Baroque" instrumentation & lyrical renovating ~ hence we hear & see his selections as they were meant to be! I have other Savall works ~ glad I discovered Jordi 5-years ago! This Video (DVD) is a "Must Have" ~ Gracias, Karlos Bernto
