Buxton Festival - Orfeo ed Euridice Reviews | 15 April 2021 |

Michael Chance (Orfeo)

Barbara Bargnesi (Euridice), Ensemble

General scene

Daisy Brown (Amore), Barbara Bargnesi Euridice)

Michael Chance (Orfeo), Daisy Brown (Amore)
Performance reviews
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Orfeo ed EuridiceBuxton FestivalNo. of reviews: 7 | ![]() |
Intense, modern version of Gluck's 1762 Italian opera |
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Much of the work’s emotional content comes from the pit |
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Stephen Medcalf’s staging underlines the simplicity of Gluck’s musico-dramatic schema |
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A great classical story gets an update at Buxton Festival |
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A lovely rendering of Gluck’s music under the baton of Stuart Stratford |
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Michael Chance's Orfeo is patchy, but Barbara Bargnesi's wounded Euridice is entrancingly sung |
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Love reigns in Buxton's Orfeo ed Euridice, but at what cost? |
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Production details
Cast
Chance, Bargnesi, Brown
(c) Stratford (d) Medcalf
Performance dates
13(m), 16, 19, 22, 25 July 2014
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