Orpheus at Opera North | Songlines
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Orpheus at Opera North

Composer and sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun gives Monteverdi a modern-day East-meets-West makeover

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Jasdeep Singh Degun ©Adam Lyons

Check out the teaser below for a new production of Monteverdi's 1607 opera, L'Orfeo, which opens at Leeds Grand Theatre on Friday 14 October. Orpheus sees co-Music Director at South Asian Arts-uk and Opera North Artist-in-Residence Jasdeep Singh Degun draw on Indian classical and Western baroque music in a groundbreaking collaboration, relocating the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a wedding party in a contemporary British garden, the original work's themes of love, loss and longing more resonant than ever.


For more details and ticket information visit www.operanorth.co.uk

 

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