2025

CREATION RESIDENCE

ORFEO Y EURIDICE/ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà) From 10/12/2025 to 30/12/2025 Presentation : On 22/02/2026 at 18:00 in Auditorio de Tenerife () Mal Pelo ( Mal Pelo ) 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.

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