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02 Dec 2025

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03 Dec 2025

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04 Dec 2025

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05 Dec 2025
Venue

Regent Theatre
191 Collins St, Melbourne

Language

Performed in Italian with English surtitles

Running time

Approximately 80 minutes, with no interval.

Please note

This production contains infrequent partial nudity and some strobe lighting and flashing lights.

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Fall into an ecstatic dream…or is it a nightmare?

Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving Orpheus into the jaws of Hades to rescue his beloved Eurydice. He must complete his quest without looking back, or lose Eurydice forever.

Awe-inspiring acrobatics meet Gluck’s exquisite music in a genre-busting production, a sell-out hit of the 2024 Sydney Festival. Projections seamlessly integrate surtitles into the action on stage, as brilliant singers come together with the trailblazing circus artists of Circa, one of Australia’s most successful cultural exports.

In this visually stunning production, Circa’s Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz has created a mesmerising experience, exploring the intersection between love and death that is the beating heart of Orpheus & Eurydice.

The role of Orpheus demands vocal beauty and dramatic virtuosity, and we’re delighted to bring the world’s best to your stage in extraordinary British countertenor Iestyn Davies. He performs opposite Australian soprano Samantha Clarke, making her role debut singing both Eurydice and Amor under the baton of conductor Dane Lam.

“Delightful and astonishing ★★★★”

Sydney Morning Herald

“Starkly beautiful… invigorating and insightful. ★★★★½”

Limelight

“An operatic spectacle fit for the gods.”

Theatre Travels


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Cast & Creative

Conductor
Director & Set Designer
Associate Director
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Boris Bagattini
Choreography
Circa Ensemble
Orfeo
Eurydice/Amore
Orchestra

Opera Australia Chorus
Circa Ensemble

Orpheus & Eurydice, first produced by Opera Queensland in association with Circa, at QPAC (2019)

Cheat Sheet: Orpheus & Eurydice

Everything you need to know about Gluck’s opera of love and the power of music.

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Synopsis

A woman descends into the Underworld.

ACT 1

It is the morning after the night of Orpheus and Eurydice’s wedding. A night of love that ended tragically with the bride’s death. Orpheus wakes to find himself alone in an asylum. He is immersed in his grief and his guilt. His hold on reality is tenuous. The room fills with phantasmal images and creatures. Amor (love) appears. She looks exactly like Eurydice. She may or may not be real. She grants Orpheus the chance to descend into the Underworld to rescue Eurydice. The condition is that he doesn’t look at Eurydice until they return.

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