Music concert

Orfeo ed Euridice

A double reflection on love and death

C.W. VON GLUCK
Jérémie Rhorer
Conductor
Romeo Castellucci
Stage director
Bejun Mehta
Countertenor
Christiaene Karg
Soprano
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Choir

Romeo Castellucci is going to offer us a double reflection on love and death based on Christoph Willibald Gluck’s masterpiece, first in Vienna during the month of May, opening the Wiener Festwochen, and then in Brussels in June. He will present Orfeo ed Euridice, the Viennese version of 1762, in Italian in Vienna, to be followed by Hector Berlioz’s 1859 version, in French, Orphée et Eurydice, on the stage of La Monnaie. One project, that will be spread over two productions, with two casts, two orchestras and two conductors.

 

Coproduction: Wiener Festwochen & De Munt/ La Monnaie

Gluck's music was wonderfully interpreted by B'Rock Orchestra, sensitive and yet powerful conducted by Jérémie Rhorer.
Renate Wagner Neues Volksblatt, 13.05.2014
Some enchanting sounds were produced by the members of B'Rock in the pit. The grating of the gates of hell, the echoes, the consoling dance steps: the orchestra and its delightful playing combined sorrow and despair into a single, very beautiful whole.
Tom Janssens De Standaard, 12.05.2014
At the head of the excellent, rocking, but also very varied playing B'Rock Orchestra, conductor Jérémie Rhorer has everything under control and surely is a very secure partner for Mehta.
Kurier, 13.05.2014
B'Rock - and also the Schoenberg Choir - create a miracle with aural delicacy.
Ljubisa Tosic Der Standard, 12.05.2014
Klangdelikatesse
Michael Tschida Kleine Zeitung, 12.05.2014
Musically, Belgian Baroque Orchestra B'Rock - conducted prudently by Jérémie Rhorer - played virtuosic and was a delight of the evening.
Nachrichten, 12.05.2014
Baroque Orchestra B'Rock conducted by Jeremie Rhorer unveils together with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir the beauty and how Castellucci says it, 'exogenous force' of Gluck's music.
Gerald Heidegger ORF, 14.05.2014
Pulsating sounds, often renewed articulation, beautiful colors coming out of the old instruments - and an uncommon vitality. It went right to the heart.
Peter Hagmann Neuers Zürcher Zeitung, 14.05.2014