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    L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica...
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  • These lists show the audio and visual recordings of the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. The opera was first performed in Mantua in 1607, at the court...
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  • L'Orfeo Barockorchester is an Austrian Ensemble of historically informed performance. The international baroque and opera orchestra, founded in 1996 by...
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    opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea...
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    for the Blessed Virgin) of 1610, and three complete operas. His opera L'Orfeo (1607) is the earliest of the genre still widely performed; towards the...
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    Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany...
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    survives to this day Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck L'Orfeo (1607), by Claudio Monteverdi, widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork...
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    the performers. A well-discussed example can be found in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, where the indications on which instruments to use are partial and limited...
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    works for multiple instruments (the opening of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo being a notable example). The form first appeared in the late Renaissance...
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  • (Bizet) L'horloge comtoise, L'enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel) Orfeo, L'Orfeo (Monteverdi) Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) Ramiro, L'heure espagnole...
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    1580–1651) Libro primo di villanelle, 20 (1610) Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), L'Orfeo, favola in musica (1610) Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672), Musikalische Exequien...
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    Euridice, an opera by Giulio Caccini with librettist Ottavio Rinuccini (1602) L'Orfeo, the first opera by Monteverdi (1607) Orfeo, an opera by Luigi Rossi (1647)...
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    17th-century music. Sometimes instruments are specified by the composer: in L'Orfeo (1607) Monteverdi calls for an exceptionally varied instrumentation, with...
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    The early baroque opera L'Orfeo, composed by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, was first performed in 1607. It is Monteverdi's...
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  • Euridice opens with a brief instrumental ritornello, and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607) opens with a toccata, in this case a fanfare for muted trumpets...
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    Swiss tenor Max Meili sang "Addio terra, addio cielo" from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the burial service. Joyce had been a subject of the United Kingdom all...
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  • the latter took several roles in the first performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607). Castrati were already prominent by this date in Italian church...
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  • Caccini's Euridice Caronte in Peri's Euridice Caronte in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo Caronte in Rossi's Orfeo Caronte in Landi's La morte d'Orfeo. It may also...
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  • Frontispiece of Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, 1609...
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    Œdipus rex (with Richard Cassilly) and Carmina Burana (1959), as well as L'Orfeo (with Gérard Souzay) and Il prigioniero (with Norman Treigle, 1960). In...
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  • made her professional debut in 2001 as Proserpina/Ninfa in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo with Boston Baroque. In the 2002–2003 season, Forsythe performed the role...
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    depths and weight of the underworld, as in Monteverdi and Rinuccini's L'Orfeo (1607) and Il ballo delle ingrate (1608). In their ballo, a form of ballet...
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    two collections, Le nuove musiche (1602 and 1614). For his 1607 opera L'Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi lists duoi (two) chitaroni among the instruments required...
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  • orchestral music can be traced back to the early seventeenth century, such as L'Orfeo by Monteverdi. In French opera of the late eighteenth century (such as...
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    kettledrum music occurs at the beginning of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo (1607)." Later in the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a secular...
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  • considered to be Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote the first prominent opera, L'Orfeo, followed by two others. Throughout the later 17th century, his successor...
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    been a part of the structure of operas. Early 16th-century operas such as L'Orfeo and L'incoronazione di Poppea involve duets throughout the performance...
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    double bass) which would play the bassline. With the writing of the operas L'Orfeo and L'incoronazione di Poppea among others, Monteverdi brought considerable...
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    Subsequent operatic and musical interpretations include: Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607) Luigi Rossi's Orfeo (1647) Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente...
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    It is the city where the composer Monteverdi premiered his 1607 opera L'Orfeo and to where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's 1597 play Romeo and Juliet...
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