Why? Because in this version of the story, she--certainly as portrayed with sweetness and vitality by soprano Julie Roset--Eurydice was the center of attraction. In fact, there were numerous other ...
On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. Killer Queen Opera's production of L'Orfeo follows Orpheus ...
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, unveiled in 1607 in Mantua, was the first masterpiece of the newly invented genre of opera. John Eliot Gardiner set the gold standard among recordings in 1987, with the late ...
The tenor sings the title role and also conducts in this new recording that interest and spark but eccentricities; instrumentalists I Gemelli are very fine A decade ago, new recordings of the earliest ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s perpetually astounding that the first real opera should have sprung as perfectly formed it did from Monteverdi’s pen in 1607.
The opera's first two acts are both set in the fields of Thrace. In ACT ONE, Orfeo and Euridice are married in a raucous celebration that includes a chorus of shepherds and nymphs. But as ACT TWO ...
Vividly sung by an ensemble of 12 and exquisitely played by period group La Serenissima, Olivia Fuchs’s lively production of Monterverdi’s opera is full of contemporary references Monteverdi’s first ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Academy of Ancient Music began life as “a refugee operation for period-instrument players”, in the words of its ...
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