Stravaganza d’Amore

This DVD was awarded the prestigious Diamant d’Opéra Magazine prize.

The sumptuous princely entertainments that had been held in Italy since the Renaissance, particularly at the Medici court in Florence, were famous throughout Europe. The musical interludes that adorned them were already true dramatic masterpieces, wonderfully combining music and poetry. They were the setting that gave birth to Italian opera, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607) is their direct heir, with its almost perfect architecture, depth of expression and immanent beauty of its music. Raphaël Pichon, in a state of grace, invites you to discover these Italian splendours, imagining a princely interlude conceived with the most sumptuous music of the turn of the 1600s, true opera scenes but also gigantic polyphonic pieces for thirty voices, filmed in the most beautiful palace in the world.

Filmed in February 2019 in the Galerie des Glaces of Versailles.
Directed by François-René Martin.

1 hour 47 minutes