ORFEO

Orfeo, adapted by John Conklin and Karin Coonrod (and musically arranged by Gina Leishman) from Monteverdi's opera, is constructed for three singers, one speaker and seven musicians. 

Excising all the shepherds music, the piece cuts to the quick of the cosmic love-story with its lover-poet-prophet Orfeo at its center. The opera is sung in Italian with spoken texts in Latin, English and German, texts from Ovid, Virgil, Rilke and Ruhl.

Orfeo was a co-production between Studio for Art, Faith and History (John Skillen, Director) and Compagnia de' Colombari at the Palazzo Simoncelli, Orvieto Italy July 2014

Cast

Stephen Salters – Orfeo

Andrea Brugnera (speaker)

Francesca Bruni (soprano)

Stefano Benini (tenor)

musicians

Riccardo Cambri (harpsichord)

Alessandro Graziani (percussion)

Dino Graziani (violin)

Rita Graziani (flute)

Gina Leishman (mandola)

Sandro Paradisi (accordion)

Sarah Roberts (cello)

Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod

Music: Monteverdi
Arrangment & Conducted: Gina Leishman

Costumes: Oana Botez

Set and Lights: Peter Ksander