Pluhar: Orfeo Chamán
Christina Pluhar (theorbo & direction)
L’Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar has thus taken on a big challenge. She has tackled this via an effective melding of Baroque opera with indigenous South American folk music, popular song styles, Renaissance...
Pluhar: Orfeo Chamán
Christina Pluhar (theorbo & direction)
L’Arpeggiata
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Christina Pluhar has thus taken on a big challenge. She has tackled this via an effective melding of Baroque opera with indigenous South American folk music, popular song styles, Renaissance...
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CD+DVD Deluxe
A unique retelling of the Orpheus myth drawing on Baroque music and folksongs from South America to Sicily, with a real-life Orfeo – the blind Argentinean singer-guitarist Nahuel Pennisi – in the title role. The resulting opera composed and arranged by Christina Pluhar reveals the mysterious shamanic side of the legendary musician who ventures into the underworld for love. The limited edition version of the album is accompanied by a bonus DVD: the complete filmed performance of the vibrantly staged opera at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogotá, Colombia.
Contents and tracklist
- Nahuel Pennisi (Orfeo), Luciana Mancini (Eurídice), Vincenzo Capezzuto (Butes, Nahual), Emiliano Gonzalez (Toro Aristeo) & Christina Pluhar (theorbo & direction)
- L'Arpeggiata
- Christina Pluhar
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2016
Christina Pluhar has thus taken on a big challenge. She has tackled this via an effective melding of Baroque opera with indigenous South American folk music, popular song styles, Renaissance instruments and modern choreography, producing a very accessible, readily-assimilated work. The singers, manifesting various styles and vocal weights, acquit themselves well
