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| Composer | Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643) |
| Period | Early |
| Year | 1607 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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New York CityMonteverdi's OrfeoSemi-staged performance
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Charlie Weaver; Alyssa Weathersby; Tenet Vocal Artists; Jolle Greenleaf; Camilla Tassi; Jacob Perry
ParisL’OrfeoConcert performance
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Stéphane Fuget; Orchestre Les Épopées; Juan Sancho; Jennifer Courcier; Isabelle Druet
SevilleL'OrfeoSemi-staged performance
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Teatro de la Maestranza; Sylvain Wavrant; Léo Petrequin; Cappella Mediterranea
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L’Orfeo, the world’s first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne
One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi’s opera in an artist's studio,
The early flowering of opera: a fragrant L’Orfeo at Schwetzingen
Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.
Dionysian and Apollonian: René Jacobs conducts L'Orfeo in Berlin
In a concert performance at the Berlin Philharmonie, conductor René Jacobs gives his own – thrilling – take on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
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