Part of the Tapete Común programme for Casas de Creación (creative centres) in rural spaces. Collaboration between A Casa Vella and L’animal a l’esquena.

Tapete Común is made up of:

Azala Creación in Lasierra, Vitoria: https://www.azala.eus/
L’animal a l’esquena, Celrà, Gerona: https://lanimal.org/
EiMA Creació, Maria de la Salut, Mallorca: https://eimacreacio.com/
A Casa Vella, Amiadoso, Orense: https://acasavella.gal/es/inicio/

Set up in 2015, Tapete Común has created a dialogue based not only on the programmes of each centre, but also in relation to what it means to reclaim and defend a creative space in small towns, as opposed to the cities that accrue most of the resources for performance production and research. Year by year, we have consolidated this program of communication and reflection.

Orpheus and Eurydice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck with a libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi. It was first performed on the 5th October 1762 in Vienna and is one of the most influential operas of the classical period, marking a change in serious opera, with a more direct, expressive style. It is based on the myth of Orpheus, the Thracian musician who descended to the underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice.
Gluck severely simplified the opera, eliminating the excessive ornamentation of the barroque and giving more weight to the integration of the music with the dramatic action.
Mal Pelo plans a version that will go beyond the original story, giving a new poetic and philosophical dimension to the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Mal Pelo’s counter-narrative centres on the fact that Eurydice has died by suicide; in the original libretto, the work begins with Eurydice already dead, with no explanation. The theme of Eurydice’s suicide and existential emptiness may open up new ways to reflect in a more contemporary and complex manner on love, suffering and death.