Christian Lollike christian@sort-hvid.dk

Orfeo

19April2023 - 4May2023

Opera Singers
MORTEN GROVE FRANDSEN, FREDERIKKE KAMPMANN, CONNY THIMANDER, STEFFEN BRUUN
Performers
LOUISA AISIN, NANA FRANCISCA SCHOTTLÄNDER, MADAME NIELSEN, KRISTIAN DE LINDE
Musicians from Copenhagen Phil
ANDREAS ORLOWTZ (1. Violin), ANNE SØE (1. Violin), JOHN BAK DINITZEN (1. Violin), KIRSTINE FUTTRUP (2. Violin), HELENE BORDONARO (2. Violin), ANDREA GYARFAS (2. Violin), NINNIE ISAKSSON (Viola), KATHRYN RIDLEY (Viola), JAKUP LÜTZEN (Viola), RASMUS NØRBY (Viola), THEODOR LYNGSTAD (Cello), WIEBKE VESTERGAARD (Cello), SAMIRA DAYYANI (Cello), AINO SIURUA (Cello), PERRINE PACHERIE-BASSEUX (Cello), STEPHEN BUCKLEY (Bass), MORTEN MANDEL (Bass), PIOTR HETMAN (Bass), BENJAMIN FOX (Percussion), ALICJA KRAJEWSKA (Percussion)
Conductor
MAGNUS LARSSON
Composition and Arrangement
RASMUS ZWICKI
Direction
CHRISTIAN LOLLIKE
Text
CHRISTIAN LOLLIKE, MADAME NIELSEN IN COOPERATION WITH THE WHOLE ARTISTIC TEAM
Set Design and Costumes
IDA GRARUP, DAVID GEHRT
Light Design
MORTEN KOLBAK
Composition L’Orfeo
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Libretto L’Orfeo
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO
Dramaturgy
ANDERS THRUE DJURSLEV
Costumes
HANNE MØRUP
Props
TOBIAS EFF JOHANNESSEN
Stage Master
JONATHAN SVANTE HJORTH
Sound Technician and Operator
SØREN MOORE
Lights Operator
ALBERT LØGSTRUP BRYGGER
Sound Operator
CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD MEIER NIELSEN
Stage Manager
ANDREA STØIER ANDERSEN, RIKKE HAARBO ANDERSEN, LÆRKE KOLDING
Props and Building
ANDERS TOFT PEDERSEN
Building
THEIS NICOLAI FIRING, SARINA GIULIA BOSIO, MARIANNE FEMERLING, LASSE BRIX LINDQVIST
Painting
JETTE MOGENSEN
Director’s Assistant
EMILIE BESKE
Assistant
MICHELLE ALEXANDRA FOMCENCO
Extras
MADS BITTMANN, GOLSHID ROKHZAN
Photos
EMILIA THERESE

Descend into the realm of the dead. Surrounded by the spirits of the underworld, you become part of a tale of an unquenchable longing for knowledge and beauty, restraint, and abundance. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. 

ORFEO is a requiem for our time, staged as a full-scale musical installation. Composer Rasmus Zwicki and director and playwright Christian Lollike combine new compositions, original, processed, and looped opera, soundscapes, instrumental music, acting, and audience interaction. A free, contemporary interpretation of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. 

The performance is one of the biggest productions ever created by Sort/Hvid. The old slaughterhouse is transformed into a labyrinth universe, where ghosts, embodied by musicians, singers and actors, welcome you like a deceased among them.  

Co-production between Sort/Hvid and Copenhagen Phil.