Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Plot

Film recording of Robert Wilson’s stage production of the opera by Gluck. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz’s 1859 revision of Gluck’s opera “Orphée et Eurydice” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soloists Magdalena Kožená, Madeline Bender and Patricia Petibon are accompanied by Gardiner’s regular chorus, The Monteverdi Choir, and the 19th-century period instruments of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

Cast

Magdalena Kožená

Orphée

Madeline Bender

Eurydice

Patricia Petibon

Amour

John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor