Pina Bausch: Overture to Orpheus & Eurydice (composer Christoph Willibald Gluck)

Look, there’s not much I CAN’T find a flaw in but this might be one of those rare times when I’m struck dumb. What Pina Bausch did with Gluck’s Overture to “Orpheus Eurydice“ is possibly the best thing I’ve ever seen choreographed to opera and maybe one of the best morbid performance pieces I like morbid. And opera. Especially chorale pieces and those are always morbid, I mean choruses sing on that fine line between good and evil. Even Handel’s “Messiah“ could be the theme from heaven OR hell, i
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