Organization

Conductor

Gianluca Capuano

Stage director

Franco Citterio

Giovanni Schiavolin

Set designer

Lighting designer

Costume designer

Cecilia Di Marco

Maria Grazia Citterio

Singer

Tenor

Renato Dolcini

Orfeo

Soprano

Carlotta Colombo

Euridice

Music

Sara Mingardo

The messenger

Hope

Bass

Marco Saccardin

Pluto

Salvo Vitale

Caronte

Massimo Altieri

Apollo

First shepherd

Salzburger Festspiele

Echo

Massimo Lombardi

Second shepherd

Second spirit

Baritone

Jacopo Facchini

Third shepherd

Fourth shepherd

First spirit

Francesca Cassinari

The nymph

Elena Carzaniga

Proserpina

Third spirit

Orchestra

Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco

Il Canto di Orfeo

Others

Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli

Italian

L'Orfeo -  (Orfeo)

Salzburg

Austria

Whitsun Festival

Haus für Mozart

L'Orfeo Monteverdi

Public

Private

German

English

Approved

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Just a few years after opera as a genre had originated in Italy, a substantial contribution to the emergent genre appeared on a stage this side of the Alps with a performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the prince-archbishop’s residence in Salzburg on 27 January 1612. Composed in1607 for the carnival at the ducal court of Mantua, Monteverdi’s work, which is likewise based on the ancient Orpheus myth, marks the actual ‘big bang’ of operatic history. In Monteverdi’s opera, Orpheus also succeeds in bringing his wife back from the underworld by means of an artful lament; however, he loses her forever when he turns round to look at her, and is left behind alone and distraught. Monteverdi elaborated his composition in an entirely novel way, characterizing protagonists and the action with particular motifs or the timbres of the different instruments. Thus Orfeo’s singing is accompanied by the sound of the harp, and the music of the dancing shepherds brightened with flutes and fiddles, while a chorus of trombones adumbrates the sombre atmosphere of the underworld.

One of the oldest puppeteer groups, the ensemble Carlo Colla e Figli from Milan recounts Monteverdi’s favola in musica with its marionettes, which are surrounded by an antique carousel of painted canvases and voiced by the singers.

One of the oldest puppeteer groups, the ensemble Carlo Colla e Figli from Milan recounts Monteverdi’s favola in musica with its marionettes, which are surrounded by an antique carousel of painted canvases and voiced by the singers.

Orfeo by Monteverdi, From (2023/2023), Directed by Franco Citterio, Giovanni Schiavolin,, Conductor Gianluca Capuano, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, Austria

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