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Beguiling Orpheus

2006 live opera performance. duration: 62 min, screen: ~900 x 500 cm (1080p)

mezzo-soprano: Alexandra Thomas, Raika Simone Maier; video/staging: Maxim Tyminko; music: Gleb Choutov, Christoph Willibald Gluck; production and subtitles: Maja Ilic; co-production video: Vika Mitrichenka;

Based on the Christoph Willibald Gluck’s baroque opera "Orfeo ed Euridice".

In this interpretation the traditional theatrical stage design is replaced by electronic scenography, one female singer performs Orfeo’s partition live, all other characters are presented as virtual personages in the video projection.

The project was supported by the Art Foundation NRW. First performed at the Museum of Applied Art, Cologne, on 15 September 2006

Act 3 Scene 2: 'Blackout'
Act 3 Scene 2: 'Blackout'
Act 3 Scene 1: 'Sculpture'
Act 3 Scene 1: 'Sculpture'
Act 2 Scene 2: 'Garden'
Act 2 Scene 2: 'Garden'
Act 3 Scene 2: 'TV'
Act 3 Scene 2: 'TV'
Act 2 Scene 1: 'Underground'
Act 2 Scene 1: 'Underground'
Act 2 Scene 2a: 'Choir'
Act 2 Scene 2a: 'Choir'

Mezzo-soprano: Alexandra Thomas (Raika Simone Maier) Music: Gleb Choutov, Christoph Willibald Gluck; Visual concept and video production: Maxim Tyminko; Production and subtitles: Maja Ilic; Co-production video: Vika Mitrichenka; Motion-math Scripting: Oleg Baravik; Masking, morph: Lena Sulkovskaia; Network rendering: Johannes Amorosa