Orfeo ed Euridice — The Soul of the Philosopher

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Haydn's "Orfeo ed Euridice, or The Soul of the Philosopher" will be premiered in a co‐production with the Hungarian State Opera House at the Budapest Spring Festival 2009!

The joys of Haydn’s first visit to London were tempered with a little bitterness. The orchestra had barely played the first forty bars of the overture at the first rehearsal of "Orfeo ed Euridice", when it was interrupted by representatives of the authorities who, in the name of the king and parliament, ordered that all work on the opera shall be stopped — saying that no performance could be held in a theatre that had been built without a permit.

This happened in the spring of 1791, in London’s Italian opera house rebuilt after the fire. Haydn never heard his last and perhaps most popular opera: the première was not held until 160 years later. The libretto expands the basic story of the myth, adding the figure of Arideus, a rival of Orpheus, and in contrast with the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck, it also presents the tragic death of Orpheus. If the incident in London had not prevented further work, it is quite possible that Haydn would have ended the work with an epilogue that would perhaps have thrown light on the meaning of the enigmatic sub‐title "The Soul of the Philosopher"!

Orfeo: N. N.
Euridice: Andrea Rost
Kreon: Csaba Szegedi
The soul: Júlia Hajnóczy
Pluto: Krisztián Cser
Conductor: Ádám Fischer
Orchestra and Choir of Hungarian State Opera House

Director: Sándor Zsótér
Stage sets: Mária Ambrus
Costumes: Mari Benedek
Choirmaster: Máté Szabó Sipos

Opera in four acts, in two parts, sung in Italian