In this striking assembly of music and acting, the
Orfeo ed Euridice takes its audience through a spectrum of emotions ranging from sadness to guilt to ego and joy. The opera begins with the prince realizing that his beloved wife is dead and he is very sad about it. In the following parts, we find out that the prince strives to bring his lovely wife back from the underground. On his way to meet his wife in the underground, he is surrounded by an army of demons whom he has to satisfy as in order to let him pass and meet his wife. There, in the underground, the prince learns that the cause of his wife's death was not any disease but his own negligence towards her and how his love for his harp competed with her love for him. As they get united in the underground, the prince and the princess begin a journey to return back. This journey, however, is completed only by the prince as his lover falls unconscious in the underground.
In the end, we see the prince walking away through a dark corridor signifying that he has learned to live alone without his harp or his beloved wife.
Welcome to the 18th century France, the powerhouse of fashion in all of Europe and a sight to behold in all sense of beauty and human achievements. Just as we enter, on our right is a group of 3 young women playing some folk tones on their musical instruments while on our left is a lovely french couple passing their day in the ignorance of the crowd around them. As we walk further, we see a lovely sphinx statue built of clay and sand and polished to such extremity that it shines away at the very camera that is trying to capture it's existence. That is the starting point of our journey because from there onward, we enter into a world of an 18th century french aristocrat whose lavishness in next only to the Greek king Midas. First we go through a living room, fully lighted and well equipped with the potential of scorching any observer with irony and guilt of self absorption. Down the hallway we see certain other rooms- a bedroom, a study-room, a changing room, etc. which are all lit up in the ignorance of the sufferings outside the 4 walls of the palace. Maybe the sufferings of that time were so great that they had to be shelled off through these elaborate building and structures as we see in the museum, or maybe the aristocrats were a bunch of non emphatic pigs whose sole aim in life was self absorption. Needless to say, no matter what their acts were motivated by, they changed the very face of France in the 18th century and helped steer the nation forward.
