Orfeo and Euridice

K and I went to see Orfeo and Euridice as my second show of the season, and it was another winner.  It is another classic story.  It's the tale of Orfeo, who must rescue his recently-deceased love Euridice from Hades.  There is one major caveat to his rescue mission: if he looks at her, she will die.  Again.  So that's not great -- and it gets worse when he breaks the rule and looks at her.  As predicted, she dies again.  Orfeo is so distraught that he is determined to kill himself rather than live without her.  It's a very Romeo and Juliet story -- until the god Amore resurrects them both, in an homage to the power of true love.  A twist happy ending!

The whole performance was well done, but the two things I liked best of all were the joyous ending and the dancing. Big Muddy Dance Company collaborated in the production of the show, rendering it a hybrid ballet-opera -- an unexpected combination which I quite enjoyed.

Oh, add a third thing that pleased me - all the leads were sung by women (including Orfeo). They killed it.

Before the show, we dined on a Greek-themes menu to accompany the show, including bleu-cheese-stuffed olives; watermelon, feta, and mint salad; pork kebabs (which had been de-kabob'd for packing purposes) with cucumber mint sauce; baklava; and Santorini Sunrise cocktails.  It was a lovely dinner in the much-needed air conditioning!