Florez lights up the stage in Orphée et Eurydice at Covent Garden
Euronews (October 1, 2015)
Juan Diego Flórez is one of the most sought after tenors of our time. Far from his usual Bel Canto repertoire, Flórez shines singing in French at the Royal Opera House in London in Gluck’s “Orphée et Eurydice”. The version presented in Paris by the German composer in 1774 is reinterpreted from a realistic perspective.
In the myth, Orpheus goes to hell to bring back his departed love Eurydice to the world of the living.
“In this production, and I think it’s a very intelligent interpretation, Eurydice is dead from the beginning, but she’s dead for the whole opera, Flórez says of the heroine. “She never comes back. Everything that happens in between is in my head.”
"I think it’s a very intelligent interpretation, Eurydice is dead from the beginning, but she’s dead for the whole opera. She never comes back. Everything that happens in between is in my head.”
