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Sep 4, 2024 · Orpheus, ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. His singing and playing were so beautiful that animals and even trees and rocks moved about him in dance. He became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings said to be his own.
Jan 8, 2010 · With Orfeo, Monteverdi created the first opera that both survived the centuries and stuck in the repertory -- a work of music and theater that displayed a brand new sort of artistic alchemy ...
L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
Orfeo is Italian for Orpheus, a figure in Greek mythology who was chief among poets and musicians.
As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.
Orfeo was first performed in the ducal palace at Mantua in a room (not apparently a spacious one) in the apartments occupied by the duke's sister Margherita Gonzaga d'Este. Tradition has it that this was the Rivers Room, but the location is, in fact, uncertain.
Mar 7, 2008 · With Orfeo, Monteverdi created the first opera that both survived the centuries and stuck in the repertory. It's the earliest example of opera's uncanny ability to present the straightforward ...
L’Orfeo is an opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world.
Read the libretto, translated to english, of the Italian opera L' Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi on Opera-Arias.com. With links to other information and other operas.
Jan 7, 2010 · It's hard to say who wrote the very first opera, but there's little doubt about the first, truly great one — it's Monteverdi's 1607 masterpiece, Orfeo, and it comes to World of Opera from a ...
