Dead Wedding
5 - 7 July 2010 Library Theatre
Faulty Optic and Mira Calix commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Opera North Projects and presented in association with The Library Theatre.
To mark the 400th anniversary of the invention of opera, Faulty Optic and Mira Calix re-invent one of the great myths in a visual and sonic feast.
Eurydice dies tragically on her wedding day but Orpheus, her fiancée, bargains to bring her back from the Land of the Dead.
Greedy to gaze upon his bride once more, Orpheus breaks the deal he has made with Pluto, the god of Hades, and Eurydice is lost forever. Orpheus’ moans of anguish enrage the once friendly Bacchae, who rip him to shreds before throwing his dismembered body into the river where his head can still be heard singing.
Orpheus has found most of his strewn body parts except his legs. But he finds himself in Hades and of course … he’s dead.
