Thrilling acrobatics and striking video design combine to take us to hell and back in Circa’s award-winning production.
Set to some of the most stirring music ever written, this is opera like you’ve never seen before.
Heartbroken Orpheus has been granted the chance to bring Eurydice, his dead wife, back to life from the underworld. However, there is one condition; he must not look back at her, not even for a moment, on their long journey back or she will be condemned to the underworld forever.
Can Orpheus resist the temptation to look into the eyes of his true love?
COMPOSER
Christoph Willibald Gluck
LIBRETTIST
Ranieri de’ Calzabigi
CONDUCTOR
Christopher van Tuinen
DIRECTOR AND SET DESIGNER
Yaron Lifschitz
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Heather Fairbairn
COSTUME DESIGNER
Libby McDonnell
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alexander Berlage
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Boris Bagattini
CHOREOGRAPHY
Yaron Lifschitz, Bridie Hooper and the Circa Ensemble
FEATURING
Circa Ensemble
West Australian Opera Chorus
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Orpheus and Eurydice by Circa.
Created by Yaron Lifschitz with Libby McDonnell and the Circa Ensemble.
Circa acknowledges the assistance of Creative Australia and Arts Queensland.