Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck; Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi
Orpheus & Eurydice
2022
Creative Team
Stephen Stubbs / Conductor
Chía Patiño / Director
Donald Byrd / Choreographer
Carey Wong / Scenic Designer
Liesl Alice Gatcheco / Costume Designer
Robert Aguilar / Lighting Designer
Robertson Witmer / Sound Designer
S Katy Tucker / Video And Projection Designer
John Keene / Chorusmaster
Philip Kelsey / Arranger
Cast
Christopher Ainslie / Orfeo
Key’mon W. Murrah / Orfeo
Ariana Wehr / Eurydice
Shelly Traverse / Eurydice
Sharleen Joynt / Amore
Deanna Breiwick / Amore
Gallery
Reviews
A Lesson on Love, Loss, and Letting Go - An Opera Talk with the creative team of Orpheus and Eurydice
In a recent Opera Talk at Tagney Jones Hall, dramaturg Jonathan Dean sat down with stage director Chía Patiño, choreographer Donald Byrd, and conductor Stephen Stubbs to discuss the creative vision behind our new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice
Other worlds beyond Earth: Seattle Opera’s ‘Orpheus’
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck's 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
Director's note for Orpheus and Eurydice
Learn more about Stage Director Chía Patiño's concept for Orpheus and Eurydice, her doubts about Orpheus's heroism, and what this story has to teach us about love, loss, and letting go.
Seattle Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Small and near perfect
The scenario is simplified and concentrated even more in the version of the drama devised by director Chia Patiño and music director Stephen Stubbs. There’s nothing airy or sentimental about their goddess of love. She’s a blunt earthy figure, impatient with Orfeo’s unwillingness to accept the facts of life and death.