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Orfeo² connects Matthew Aucoin’s dramatic cantata “The Orphic Moment” – which ends at the very instance when Orpheus loses Eurydice for a second time – to Gluck’s “Orfeo and Eurydice”. The performance probes the psychology of the crucial turning point from the myth of Orpheus in an anguished 16-minute dramatic scene. The performance starts with Matthew Aucoin’s dramatic cantata, which ends at the very instance when Orpheus loses Eurydice for a second time. But unlike Gluke’s Orpheus, this Orpheus turns around on purpose. The piece suggests that Orpheus, a celebrated singer, chooses his art over love and covets deathly separation as a spur to inspiration for his music.