Mon 4/19 @ 7:30
This week, Cleveland chamber ensemble Les Délices dedicates its online SalonEra concert to “The Orpheus Myth,” the Greek myth abut the gifted musician/poet who rescues his wife Eurydice from the Underworld (death), only to lose her permanently when he broke the condition that he not look back at her as they ascended.
Guests include scholar Susan McClary, soprano Michele Kennedy (pictured) and tenor Jason McStoots, who will perform and talk about music centered on this story that spans centuries and the different ways it’s been interpreted. They include the 1959 French film Black Orpheus, set in Brazil, which featured bossa nova-style music by Luiz Bonfá. The program features archival performances of excerpts from Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers, as well as music by Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Maurice Green, and Ralph Vaughn Williams.
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