Orfeo 55
Orfeo 55 was a chamber orchestra founded by Nathalie Stutzmann in 2009 . It had to be dissolved in 2019.
History and specifics
The program of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival for Philippe Jaroussky's Aria Concerto describes the ensemble as “the synthesis of a career over 25 years, indeed a whole life in the service of music”. Stutzmann brings into her work with Orfeo 55 "all the musical rigor, freedom of expression and emotional urgency that shaped her reputation as a singer and conductor". The specialty of the ensemble is that the founder sings as well as conducts on all recordings published up to 2015.
The orchestra put its emphasis on works of the baroque - Bach , Handel , Vivaldi . However, the musicians have mastered both the old and the modern instruments. Therefore, the ensemble is not limited to one epoch, but also plays the Metamorphoses by Richard Strauss and the Transfigured Night by Arnold Schönberg , as well as works by Wagner , Mahler and Tchaikovsky . Thanks to the prominence of the founder and the success of the first recordings, the ensemble quickly became an integral part of the international concert scene and made guest appearances in the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Wigmore Hall in London, at the Saint-Denis Festival , the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Handel Festival in Halle an der Saale . In March 2015, the TV broadcaster Arte broadcast a video recording of Pergolesi's Stabat mater , recorded in the Chapelle de la Trinité of the Château de Fontainebleau .
The ensemble has worked with well-known singers, such as the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky or the sopranos Emőke Baráth and Sonya Yoncheva . The ensemble had to be dissolved in 2019. The reason was financial difficulties, also in connection with canceled subsidies.
Discography
- Great Donna
- 2012: An Imaginary Cantata
- 2014: Heroes from the Shadow , Nathalie Stutzmann sings Handel, Erato / Warner Classics
Individual evidence
- ^ Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2015: Aria concert Philippe Jaroussky , program booklet, 31
- ↑ Orfeo 55 cesse ses activités