Michel Donato and Pierre Tanguay, two key figures of the Quebec music scene, join hands with Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, the atypical Belgian pianist who navigates between jazz and classical music. They serve up a dreamy musical feast of new and fresh harmonies and that pays attention to the spaces between notes. This is a must for lovers of music in its purest form. This is Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven’s second release with Igloo Records. Collard-Neven is a professor of music and improvisation at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons. In addition to a teaching career, he maintains an active performing life, and has performed as a pianist with the Namur Chamber Orchestra, with Art Zoyd and the Philharmonic of Antwerp, and with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lille with all Musiques Nouvelles.
Monteverdi’s seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini.
Claudio Monteverdi L'ORFEO
Orfeo – Georg Nigl Euridice / Eco – Roberta Invernizzi Messaggera / Speranza – Sara Mingardo Caronte – Luigi De Donato Proserpina – Raffaella Milanesi Plutone – Giovanni Battista Parodi Apollo – Furio Zanasi
Concerto Italiano Milan La Scala Orchestra Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor
Robert Wilson, stage director Jacques Reynaud, costume designer A J Weissbard, lighting designer Recorded live at La Teatro alla Scala, 21 and 23 December 2009. Bonus: - Cast gallery - Illustrated Synopsis
Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Anamorphic Sound format: PCM 2.0 / DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 (worldwide) Menu language: English Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian Running time: 116 mins No. of DVDs: 1
