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.
Track Listing
- Toccata
- Prologue
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Act IV
- Act V
Key Credits
- Directors: John Eliot Gardiner, Elsa Rooke
- Lighting Designer: Rick Fisher
- Costume Designers: Patricia Hofstede, Isabella De Sabata
- Video Director: Christian Kurt Weisz
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