Cecilia Bartoli: Gluck — Orfeo ed Euridice at Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

About the Event

“La Bartoli” has already sung the praises of many great predecessors — she paid homage to the legendary Maria Malibran and slipped into the skin of 18th century castrati. This time she takes on Orpheus, the god of singing, in Gluck's “Orfeo ed Euridice”. And shows what is important in singing: with his “reform opera” from the 1760s, Gluck struggled to create emotionally credible music theater that did not exhaust itself in dazzling virtuosity and formulaic musical numbers. Cecilia Bartoli, the great coloratura singer, puts her entire art at the service of music that does not want to dazzle, but to touch: a wonderful task for a goddess of song.