Having celebrated through the night, Orpheus and his friends continue to make music together, singing of the beauty of nature and his future with his wife. The sun dawns on a mehfil, a gathering place for entertainment. Orpheus and Eurydice go to the temple to offer prayers while the festivities continue. ![]() The couple, their family, and their friends sing and play music of love, praise and celebration. Two goddesses of music invite you to join us in honouring the marriage of Eurydice and Orpheus. In this meeting of East and West, OperaVision closes a month dedicated to opera’s ongoing fascination with the myth of Orpheus. The cast includes performers trained in western and Indian classical traditions, with tenor Nicholas Watts singing Orpheus and British-Tamil Carnatic singer Ashnaa Sasikaran singing Eurydice. An onstage orchestra of 19 players includes a baroque ensemble of violin, viola, cello, bass, trumpet, percussion, harp, harpsichord, lirone and theorbo, as well as Indian classical instruments including sitar, tabla, santoor, esraj and bansuri. Laurence Cummings, who also conducted Garsington’s Orfeo, is here joined by Jasdeep Singh Degun as co-music director to weave together their respective traditions of Indian classical and western early music. The bowed strings of the violin and the tar shehnai, the hammered strings of the santoor, the plucked strings of the harpsichord and sitar, and the rhythms of the tabla shape a unique musical encounter. ![]() Opera North’s adventurous new production of an ancient tragedy is told through a meeting of the worlds of Indian and western baroque classical music. Can Orpheus conquer fate, or will his heart be broken for a second time? When the newlyweds’ joy is shattered by the sudden death of Eurydice, our heartbroken hero sets off on a mission to the underworld to rescue his bride, certain that his love will overcome adversity. The wedding of the year is here as Orpheus, the musician of mythical power, marries graceful Eurydice.
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