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Met zijn nieuwe album, Storia di Orfeo brengt Franse contratenor Philippe Jaroussky een bijzondere droom tot leven: het spelen van de mythische Orpheus - een goddelijke muzikant die naar de onderwereld afreist om daar zijn geliefde vrouw Eurydice uit de klauwen van de dood te bevrijden.
Jarrousky zegt het volgende over Storia di Orfeo: “This project, which was inspired by three key 17th-century operas, was conceived as a kind of opera in miniature or as a cantata for two solo voices and chorus, and features just two characters: Orpheus and Eurydice. The three operas focus on different aspects of the story: Sartorio and Rossi depict the happiness of the young lovers and the scene in which Eurydice is bitten by the snake; Monteverdi, on the other hand, concentrates more on Orpheus’ search for Eurydice in the underworld, and the highpoint of his work is an aria that has remained without parallel in the history of opera: the magical ‘Possente spirto’, which I have the temerity to perform here as a countertenor, for the first time on record.”
