Le lacrime di Eros

In the music of composers such as Monteverdi, Caccini and Peri, who were selected for this production, love is anything but sweet. The two opera innovators, Pichon and Castellucci, show love in all its ferocity. As a master at the intersection of opera, performance and visual art, Castellucci knows how to portray the tears of love with breathtaking beauty like no other.

Then and now

It was in the city of Florence at the time of the Renaissance, where artists and researchers joined forces to create a new art form: opera, an experimental collaboration between different disciplines, which looked at the past with contemporary eyes. In Le lacrime di Eros, Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion follow this example by bringing original Renaissance material into dialogue with the electronic music by Scott Gibbons. Once again, it is a look back at the past with a contemporary eye. Another renaissance, a new beginning.