Gwendoline Blondeel (soloist), Vlad Crosman (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Marie Perbost (soloist), Paul Figuier (soloist), Julian Prégardien (soloist), Luc Bertin-Hugault (soloist), Eva Zaïcik (soloist), Luigi De Donato (soloist)
Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget
in 1607, Claudio Monteverdi performed his Orfeo at the opening of the carnival in the court theater of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in music history, real characters are animated by overwhelming human emotions: modern opera is born with this extraordinary dramatic power. After Le Retour d'Ulysse dans sa Patrie, Stephane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentalization, brings together first-class vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he entrusts the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien with the eponymous role to sing all the splendour of the first true hero in the history of opera.