Orpheus and Eurydice (2014)

Release Date: 2014-06-27
Runtime: 1h 26min
Production Company: De Munt / La Monnaie
Production Country: France
Director: Myriam Hoyer

Romeo Castellucci's production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's mythic opera. Concurrently via projected text, we learn the story of Els, a bedridden woman with locked-in syndrome, conscious but near-completely paralyzed. A live video feed from the hospital shows Els listening to the music along with the audience.