op.
Orphée et Eurydice
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Angers Nantes Opéra
director
Emmanuelle Bastet
conductor
Andreas Spering
sets and costumes
Tim Northam
lighting
François Thouret
with
Julie Robard-Gendre, Hélène Guilmette, Sophie Junker
photos
Jef Rabillon
A perspective corridor draws in the protagonists like a vacuum. All the movements of the structure and synchronised openings are in view and accompany acting and music. The costumes are restricted to black and white up until the burgeoning of the Elysean fields.