To mark the reopening of La Cité Bleue after two years of renovation work, L'Orfeo by Monteverdi will be performed in concert version by the Chœur de chambre de Namur and Cappella Mediterranea, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón.

Telling the tragic story of Orpheus, who goes to the Underworld to find his beloved Eurydice, Monteverdi's masterpiece is often considered the first opera in history. It offers us a range of human emotions set to music with genius and subtlety. "The strength of L'Orfeo's message confronts us with the mirror of all human questions.

Life, death, love, and music are the four forces that guide human life, and L'Orfeo is perhaps the opera that best embodies these essential subjects that have accompanied Man since the birth of philosophy," explains Leonardo García Alarcón.