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Orfeo ed EuridiceOpera Siam | June 2026
Saturday 27 June 2026, 14:00
Saturday 27 June 2026, 19:00 (Gala Performance)
Sunday 28 June 2026, 17:00
The Great Hall, King's Bangkok
"Music is stronger than Death"
There are stories the world keeps telling because it cannot stop telling them. A husband who loves his wife so much that he will follow her past the gates of death itself. A song so pure that even the lords of the underworld are moved to mercy. A moment of doubt — a single, fatal turn of the head — and the unbearable question that has echoed for two and a half centuries: Che farò senza Euridice? What shall I do without my Euridice?
This June, Opera Siam presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice — staged for the first time in Thailand and reimagined through the cosmology of Thai Buddhism. The dead, in this telling, do not dwell in a Greco-Roman Hades but in the layered realms of samsara: a universe of demons and devas, hungry ghosts and luminous Elysian fields, drawn from centuries of Buddhist art and storytelling. Orfeo's journey becomes one our audiences will recognise in their bones.
A Director's Parallel: Orfeo and Savitri
Director Somtow Sucharitkul brings to this production a vision that draws Gluck's myth into conversation with one of the great love stories of Asia: Savitri and Satyavan, from the Mahabharata. Princess Savitri, like Orfeo, follows her beloved into the realm of death. She, too, stands before the lord of the underworld — Yama, known to Thais as Phra Yom — and pleads for her husband's life. Where Orfeo wields music, Savitri wields wisdom and rhetoric. Where Orfeo ultimately falters, Savitri triumphs.
That difference is the dramatic question at the heart of this production. Is Orfeo's failure a flaw — or is the acceptance of impermanence, that most Buddhist of truths, the deeper wisdom hiding inside the myth all along? Somtow's staging holds these two stories side by side and asks the audience to feel the answer rather than be told it.
The Cast
In the title role of Orfeo is Kridhima Siriwattanakamol, whose warm and expressive voice carries the full weight of Gluck's grief and tenderness. As Euridice, Chanya Maneewan brings a luminous presence and an inner life that makes the lovers' final journey unbearable in the best possible sense. And as Amore, the divine messenger who sets the whole drama in motion, Punnika Mahuemuang is at once playful, radiant, and quietly profound.
These three singers are the breakout stars of Opera Siam's Young Soloist Program — artists we have watched grow from their first auditions into the formidable performers they are today. To see them now, anchoring a production of this scale and ambition, is one of the great joys of this season for all of us at Opera Siam. They are the future of opera in Thailand, and they are already here.
They are joined on the podium by Trisdee na Patalung, one of Thailand's most celebrated conductors, whose deep musicianship and unmistakable theatrical instinct make him the ideal interpreter of Gluck's revolutionary score. Under his baton, the simplicity and directness that made Orfeo ed Euridice a turning point in operatic history will find their fullest expression.
A Personal Note
We have been preparing this production for a long time. Orfeo ed Euridice is a piece that asks everything of everyone who touches it — of the singers, the orchestra, the director, the designers, and not least of the audience. It is also the piece that most fully embodies what Opera Siam exists to do: to bring the great works of the operatic tradition into our own light, our own language of imagery and feeling, and to trust that something new and true emerges in that meeting.
We hope you will join us across these three performances — whether at the matinée preview, the opening gala on Saturday evening, or the closing on Sunday — for what promises to be one of the most personal and powerful productions Opera Siam has ever staged.
Music is stronger than Death. Come and hear for yourself.
Opera Siam's Orfeo ed Euridice 27 & 28 June 2026 | Get your tickets NOW!
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King's College International School Bangkok, บริษัท เอเซียพลาสติคอินดัสทรี จํากัด, ซอย ประสานใจ, ยานนาวา, กรุงเทพมหานคร, กรุงเทพมหานคร 10120, ประเทศไทย, Nana Plaza, Thailand
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