

Gluck: Orfeo et Euridice (CD) – Jakub Józef Orlinski
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Gluck: Orfeo et Euridice (CD) – Jakub Józef Orlinski
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Artists: Jakub Józef Orlinski, Elsa Dreisig, Fatma Said, Il Giardino d’Amore
Conductor: Stefan Plewniak
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Warner
Release Date: March 19, 2024
Orfeo in Gluck’s opera Orfeo et Euridice has become a signature role for Jakub Józef Orlinski on stages around the world. Now the countertenor embodies the mythical Greek bard in a recording that for him is the realization of a dream.
Made in Orlinski’s native Warsaw, it is conducted by the dynamic Stefan Plewniak, and the instrumentalists and chorus are drawn from his ensemble Il Giardino d’Amore. The roles of Orfeo’s wife Euridice and the god Amore are taken by two further rising stars of the opera and concert stage: the sopranos Elsa Dreisig and Fatma Said. Orlinski has acted as producer, casting director, and, with Stefan Plewniak, joint artistic director of the recording.
“One of my great dreams as a student was to sing the role of Orfeo,” says Orlinski, “and now I’ve been lucky enough to perform Orfeo et Euridice in different settings... Working on those different versions I achieved my very own interpretation.... I had a clear vision of what I wanted to do with it and how. The most important thing for me as a musician is to have great collaborators, and I couldn’t imagine a better team.... And now I invite you to follow Orfeo on his journey and listen to what the power of love can do.”
History
Orfeo Ed Eurydice
Premiere: Court Theatre (Burgtheater), Vienna, 1762.
The myth of the musician Orpheus—who travels to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife, Eurydice—probes the deepest questions of desire, grief, and the power (and limits) of art. Gluck turned to this legend as the basis for a work as they were developing their ideas for a new kind of opera. Disillusioned with the inflexible forms of the genre as they existed at the time, the composer sought to reform the operatic stage with a visionary and seamless union of music, poetry, and dance.
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