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"Performed for the grand re-opening of the Theâtre du Châtélet, Paris in 1999, this version of Gluck's 1762 opera is taken from an 1859 reworked score by Hector Berlioz."
""Gluck's tragedy of love lost, found and lost again has always lent itself to powerful and iconoclastic interpretations. Here we can see Orphée et Eurydice in a vital new light of authenticity and innovation at the hands of the Gluck specialist John Eliot Gardiner and the acclaimed American director Robert Wilson. Working with a star cast of some of the most eloquent singer-actors of our day, with Magdalena Kozená and Madeline Bender in the title roles, Wilson makes the most of the opera's balletic possibilities to embark on mesmerising voyage into Hades, and into the very depths of the plight of the two."--Conteneur."
"The grieving musician of Greek myth follows his beloved wife to the depths of Hades in an attempt to bring her back from the dead."
"Following the death of his beloved wife, Eurydice, Orphée is given permission to descend into Hades to rescue her. He is warned that, if successful, he must not look at her until he has crossed to the world of the living."
"The story of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus who descends into Hades to bring his love, Eurydice, back to life."
"Opname gemaakt in 1999 in het Theatre Musical de Paris-Chatelet."