Space: Scuderie di Palazzo Corsini
Production: New Generation Festival

Author: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Musical Direction: Max Fane

Cast: Orfeo — Elspeth Marrow, Euridice — Sophie Gallagher, Amor — Xavier Hetherington, Chorus (SATB Quartet) — Maria Salvini, Olympia Hetherington, TBC, Gabriel Alexander

Orchestra:
Piano — Stefano Marzanni, String Quartet — Laure Chan, Katarina Dordevic, TBC, Iain Hall

Creative Team:
Director — Maximilian Fane
Direction — Edoardo Zucchetti
Producer — Sophie Gallagher
Tour Manager & Press — Max Wilson
Costume Design — Zara Boatto

Photography: Marco Borrelli
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Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck is presented here in a reduced “Fringe” staging, developed for a young, international ensemble as part of the New Generation Festival.

Drawing on the enduring myth of Orpheus and Eurydice—one of the most revisited narratives across artistic disciplines—the production strips the opera of ornamental elements and redundancies, focusing instead on clarity, energy, and immediacy. The result is a compact, 90-minute work designed to engage the audience through the expressive force of a reduced ensemble, a young conductor, and the central voices of Orfeo, Euridice, and Amor.

The staging unfolds in a timeless setting, conceived as a space that reflects all the eras through which the myth has travelled. Within this framework, the production emphasizes imagination and narrative continuity, creating an accessible and direct encounter with the operatic form while maintaining a strong connection to its classical roots.

Presented at Palazzo Corsini al Prato, the work forms part of the New Generation Festival’s broader activity in reinterpreting operatic repertoire for contemporary audiences.