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Orphée et Eurydice: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
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Madama Butterfly: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1Orphée et Eurydice - Week One
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Mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, who returns to the Academy of Music in the “pants” role of Orphée, talks with Director Robert Driver. Audiences will remember Donose from her more feminine title roles in The Italian Girl in Algiers in 2008 and Cinderella in 2006 but this mezzo continues to make a name for herself singing pants roles as well, which include Romeo in OCP’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi in 2002 the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos in 2003. |
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Orphée, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose,
mourns the loss of his beloved wife Eurydice and lies on her grave, vowing to avenge her death and bring her back to the land of the living. |
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 Soprano Maureen McKay returns to Philadelphia as Eurydice after her appearance as the mischievous title sister in the 2007 production of Hansel and Gretel. Soprano Elizabeth Reiter makes her Opera Company of Philadelphia debut as Amour, who informs Orphée that the gods have taken pity on him and he will be allowed to enter the underworld to charm its spirits with his music and bring Eurydice back to life. |
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  Orphee, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, has been allowed by the gods to travel to the underworld to rescue his beloved Eurydice, soprano Maureen McKay, but they have warned that he must not look into Eurydice’s eyes or reveal the gods’ command until they return to Earth or he will lose her forever. |
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  Choreographer Amanda Miller (center) works with the dancers and members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s chorus as they serve as all of the opera’s secondary characters such as demons, furies, nymphs, and shepherds.  |
