Name: L'Orfeo
Start: 2007-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2007-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Tenor

Stéphane Degout

Orfeo

Soprano

Arlene Rolph

Hope

Bass

Sergio Foresti

Caronte

Antonio Abete

Pluto

Yeree Suh

The nymph

Conductor

René Jacobs

Sunhae Im

Music

Euridice

Marie-Claude Chappuis

The messenger

Proserpina

Michael Slattery

Apollo

Singer

Johannes Chum

Fifth shepherd

Fifth spirit

Second shepherd

MusikTheater an der Wien

Italian

L'Orfeo -  (Orfeo)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Approved

If one had to fix the date of birth of the occidental musical theater, the only possible date would be February 24, 1607, the day on which Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo was premiered at the court of the Duke of Mantua. After Vincenzo Gonzaga I had attended a performance of Iacopo Peris Euridice in Florence, he commissioned his house composer Monteverdi with another setting of the ancient myth of the Thracian singer Orpheus, who, thanks to the power of music, crosses the limits of death to which man must succumb .

English

Orfeo by Monteverdi, From (2007/2007), Conductor René Jacobs, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Programme, About & Synopsis

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

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