Aapki Khushi – ORPHEUS Monteverdi, Degun – Opera North

‘Aapki Khushi’ was composed by Jasdeep Singh Degun and arranged by Ashok Gupta. In this context, ‘Aapki Khushi’ can be translated as ‘Your joy is my joy’. Eurydice (Ashnaa Sasikaran) and Orpheus (Nicholas Watts) are at their wedding, singing in Hindi and Italian.

Opera North’s adventurous new production of an ancient tragedy is told through a meeting of the worlds of Indian and western baroque classical music. The bowed strings of the violin and the tar shehnai, the hammered strings of the santoor, the plucked strings of the harpsichord and sitar, and the rhythms of the tabla shape a unique musical encounter. Laurence Cummings, who also conducted Garsington’s Orfeo, is here joined by Jasdeep Singh Degun as co-music director to weave together their respective traditions of Indian classical and western early music. An onstage orchestra of 19 players includes a baroque ensemble of violin, viola, cello, bass, trumpet, percussion, harp, harpsichord, lirone and theorbo, as well as Indian classical instruments including sitar, tabla, santoor, esraj and bansuri. The cast includes performers trained in western and Indian classical traditions, with tenor Nicholas Watts singing Orpheus and British-Tamil Carnatic singer Ashnaa Sasikaran singing Eurydice. In this meeting of East and West, OperaVision closes a month dedicated to opera’s ongoing fascination with the myth of Orpheus.

Opera North, in collaboration with South Asian Arts-uk.

Streamed on OperaVision on 31 October 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 30 April 2023: https://operavision.eu/performance/or...

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A studio recording of the song, featuring musicians from the Orchestra of Opera North and Jasdeep Singh Degun’s touring band, is now available via Jasdeep’s record label, Real World Records: https://lnk.to/RWS128

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