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Gluck - Orfeo & Eurydice (DVD) | Bel Air BAC044

Gluck - Orfeo & Eurydice (DVD)

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Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC044

Barcode: 3760115300446

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th November 2009

Contents

Artists

Yann Bridard
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Marie-Agnes Gillot
Julia Kleiter
Miteki Kudo
Sunhae Im
Ballet de l’Opera National de Paris
Balthasar-Neumann Chor & Ensemble

Conductor

Thomas Hengelbrock

Works

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)

Artists

Yann Bridard
Maria Riccarda Wesseling
Marie-Agnes Gillot
Julia Kleiter
Miteki Kudo
Sunhae Im
Ballet de l’Opera National de Paris
Balthasar-Neumann Chor & Ensemble

Conductor

Thomas Hengelbrock

About

The first DVD tribute to the German choreographer Pina Bausch, 1940-2009, whose bleak vision changed the face of European dance.

Filmed in HD at the Palais Garnier February 2008 Orpheus and Eurydice is Pina Bausch's masterpiece and the ultimate symbol of the genius of this German choreographer, who died in June 2009, five days after being diagnosed with cancer.

Bausch was the artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, which she founded in 1973. She had a formidable international reputation as one of modern dance's greatest innovators. Her dance-theatre works include the melancholic Café Müller (1978), in which dancers stumble around the stage crashing into tables and chairs, and a thrilling Rite of Spring (1975), which required the stage to be completely covered with soil. Excerpts from Bausch's Café Müller and another of her works, Masurca Fogo, reached a wider audience when they were featured in Pedro Almodóvar's film Talk to Her (2002). Bausch also appeared in Federico Fellini's 1983 film And the Ship Sails On.

Bausch continued to perform as a dancer throughout her 60s. Her company last visited the UK in 2008 for a sold-out series of performances, drawing long queues for returns at Sadler's Wells in London. Guardian critic Judith Mackrell gave the show a five-star review, praising Bausch's ability to "combine movement of shocking visceral intensity with stage visions of often hallucinogenic strangeness".

Cast:
Orpheus:
Yann Bridard (ballet)
Maria Riccarda Wesseling (opera)

Eurydice:
Marie-Agnès Gillot (ballet)
Julia Kleiter (opera)

Amor:
Miteki Kudo (ballet)
Sunhae Im (opera)

Choreography and Stage Direction: Pina Bausch
Set, costume and lighting designs: Rolf Borzik

"Pina Bausch's production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, one of the most beautiful contemporary works to grace the stage of the Palais Garnier, is a masterpiece. It is a combination of music, opera, classical drama and dance merged into one sublime and balanced whole." - Culturekiosque.com

"She was an artist of the kind that the world is only blessed with from time to time. Her repertoire of works has inspired generations of audiences and artists with an impact that is hard to overestimate." - Alistair Spalding, artistic director, Sadler's Wells

Color, 16/9, NTSC - PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Duration : 104 minutes
Sung in German
Subtitles : FR, ENG, DE, SP, IT

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