Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Korchak is no haute-contre but a robust, heroic tenor. Lauren Snouffer is suitably boyish as Amour...Andriana Chuchman makes a fiery Eurydice...The choreography executed by the Joffrey Ballet... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…

Release Date: 11th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: 714308
Label: C Major

Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer
The Joffrey Ballet, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and Chorus
Harry Bicket

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One of opera’s most beautiful masterpieces, Gluck’s exquisite drama introduces us to Orpheus, the poet and musician whose every word and note communicate the most overwhelming love for his Eurydice. Lyric presents Orphée et Eurydice in the Paris version, which contains thrilling ballet sequences that will come to vivid life under the direction and choreography of the legendary John Neumeier. Lyric’s production stars Dmitry Korchak as Orphée with Andriana Chuchman as Eurydice and Lauren Snouffer as Amour. The Chicago Tribune deemed the production “triumphant” and “miraculously fresh and alive.” The production features Gluck’s reworking of the original German opera into a French-language production featuring ballet. “To hear [Gluck’s] songful art pour out uninterrupted…[is] to understand the overwhelming power of melody.” (The New York Times)

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January 2020

Korchak is no haute-contre but a robust, heroic tenor. Lauren Snouffer is suitably boyish as Amour...Andriana Chuchman makes a fiery Eurydice...The choreography executed by the Joffrey Ballet is imaginative, and the chorus and orchestra – performing at present-day pitch – are excellent under the admirable conducting of Harry Bicket.

July 2020

This is dance-drama as well as soap opera...The performance as a whole, precisely executed, skilfully supported by the decor, is strongly and sensitively conducted by Harry Bicket, and very well played by the orchestra and sung by the chorus and a trio of principals led by Dmitry Korchak, a remarkably confident-voiced tenor if also a somewhat blank-faced actor.

Opera Now January 2020

John Neumeier attends to every aspect of the performance...it’s slick...skilfully performed

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