Opera with more than 50 participants takes place this Friday (20) at 8:30 pm; The show will be broadcast live on Youtube of the Festival
Take the opera L´Orfeo by the Italian Claudio Monteverdi and mix it with the Orpheus and Eurydice of the German Christoph Gluck. mix. Bring it to Jaraguá do Sul, northern Santa Catarina, and hand it over to an Argentina. The recipe for “As Verdades de Orfeu” is ready, a second opera set up exclusively for the public of the 18th edition of FEMUSC – Santa Catarina International Music Festival. The show will be presented this Friday (20) at 8:30 pm at the Grande Teatro do Scar, with live broadcast on the festival’s Youtube channel.
“We were really daring this year, when we decided to do not one, but three operas”, said conductor Alex Klein, founder of Femusc. “It was practically a gift for the age of the event that the event completes this year, and that has given such positive and impressive results over the years”, he added. More than ten thousand musicians have been trained by FEMUSC since its launch in 2006.
“The truths of Orpheus” is directed by Mezzo-Soprano Raquel Winnica Young, responsible for the mixture of the “Orfeus” of Gluck and Monteverdi. This is Raquel’s second experience at Femusc, who this time came especially to teach historical voice classes and direct the play.
The European opera touch was on account of the musical direction, which is in the hands of the Spaniard Luis Antonio Gonzalez, who comes to FEMUSC for the first time exclusively for the function. For the sound of the opera, Gonzalez will feature the Barroque and Classic Orchestras of the Festival.
About 50 people, including singers, orchestra and dancers, are part of “The Truths of Orpheus”, who succeeded, at Femusc this year, “The Passion According to Saint Matthew”, by Johann Sebastian Bach, staged in the last Friday (13) and applauded by a crowded house. According to a survey by the organization of Femusc, approximately one thousand people watched the show. “Let’s repeat the success this Friday”, says the conductor.
The costume is inspired by the visual artist and costume designer Marcio Poloschi, a veteran at the Femusc team. Paloschi has already signed great festival shows, such as “As Bodas de Figaro”, a Mozart opera presented in 2022, and this year’s own “Passion according to São Mateus”.
“We adapted each look, brought the look to the current moment, with social clothes, and the elements of the period are punctuated with characteristics of the period in each character”, revealed Paloschi. “The form and colors were fundamental to characterize the main character, for example, but the main thing in the construction of the costume of ‘Orfeu’ was this game with the times – current and old”.
Double Orpheus
L’Orfeo also known as “The Fable of Orfeo”, by Claudio Monteverdi, is one of the first cataloged works as opera and played a fundamental role in the development of the genre. The premiere took place in 1607, in Mantua, Italy.
The work of Gluck, Orfeu and Eurydice (Orfeo Ed Euridice, in the original in Italian), was first presented a century after Monteverdi’s. Considered, after Mozart’s masterpieces, the most important opera of the 18th century, Orfeu and Eurydice incorporates ideals of the operatic reform movement initiated in the 1750s. The reformist composers defended the dramatic action and the end of any music or dance that was not at the service of the cause of the opera.
Synopsis
Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice and lives with her until her father, Apollo, sends him on a mission in a distant location, and which he should do without the company of his beloved. Far from Orpheus, the solitary Eurydice is one day bitten by a snake, cannot resist and dies. When Orpheus returns from his journey and knows about death, he does not conform and goes after Eurydice in the world of the dead. The story speaks of courage and conveys the message that love can overcome everything, even death.
