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AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL 2018 OrphEus – a dance opera By Michael Parmenter With The New Zealand Dance Company Co-produced by the New Zealand Festival, Auckland Arts Festival and The New Zealand Dance Company at Civic Theatre, Auckland From 8 Mar 2018 to 11 Mar 2018 [2 hrs, including interval] Reviewed by Raewyn Whyte (2), 10 Mar 2018 originally published in NZ Herald |
Michael Parmenter's epic OrphEus — a dance opera, produced by The New Zealand Dance Company, is sublime and deeply satisfying; a rich fusion of dance and song, narrative and design, music and deep emotion.
Inspired by the legendary feats of Orpheus, his love for and loss of wife Eurydice, and scholarly writings exploring the Orphic world, the production has been long dreamed of by Parmenter. The opera immerses us in the life of Orpheus (Carl Tolentino), from his birth to his mother (Lucy Marinkovich) to his death at the hands of the Bacchantes (Katie Rudd, Bree Timms and Marinkovich), his adventuring with the Argonauts (Eddie Elliott, Toa Paranihi, Oliver Carruthers and Sean MacDonald) and his plunge into the Underworld to rescue Eurydice (Chrissy Kokiri) .
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