Description

L'Orfeo - A Revolutionary Opera Experience

UPC: 0809478013471

Product Details

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Conductors: John Eliot Gardiner & Elsa Rooke
Lighting Designer: Rick Fisher
Costumes: Patricia Hofstede and Isabella De Sabata
Performers:Choir: Monteverdi Choir
- Orfeo: Krystian Adam
- La Musica/Euridice: Hana Blažíková
- Proserpina: Francesca Boncompagni
- Caronte/Plutone: Gianluca Buratto
- Speranza: Kangmin Justin Kim
- Apollo: Furio Zanasi
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
DVD Format: 16:9
Sound: LPCM 2.0, DTS Digital Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean
Running Time: Approx. 119 minutes
Region Code: All regions
Publisher: Opus Arte, Unitel

Product Features

First great opera ever written, featuring Monteverdi's genius.
Semi-staged production in the historic Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
450th-anniversary performance by Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

Overview

Opera was in its infancy when Monteverdi wrote L'Orfeo, only a few years after the first example of a drama set wholly to music had been performed in Florence. He brought to the work a revolutionary synthesis of text, staging, and musical architecture that virtually defined the future of opera. John Eliot Gardiner first conducted L'Orfeo at the Proms in London in 1969. For decades he has been at the forefront of Monteverdi performance and scholarship and in 2017, the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, he undertook the crowning achievement of his association with the composer, an odyssey to perform all three surviving full-length operas. This performance of L'Orfeo was given at the historic Teatro La Fenice in Venice – which has seen triumphant premieres of works by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and many others – in a critically acclaimed semi-staged production.

Interesting Facts

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is often considered the first great opera ever written.
John Eliot Gardiner has been a leading figure in Monteverdi performance for over five decades.
The 2017 performance marks the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth.
Teatro La Fenice in Venice has hosted premieres of many famous operas.