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""Dramatic power and lively orchestration mark L'Orfeo, one of the earliest works recognized as an opera, based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus who attempts to rescue his dead lover Eurydic from Hades, the underworld. With this opera Monteverdi created an entirely new style of music, the drama per musics, or musical drama. World renowned conductor William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants in this Teatro Real of Madrid production, set by Pier Luigi Pizzi in the Mantua ducal palace where the opera was first staged."- Verso du conteneur."
"Monteverdi's Orfeo performed by Ensemble La Fenice conducted by Jean Tubéry."
"Opéra en un prologue et 5 actes de Claudio Monteverdi, Les Arts florissants et Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse sous la direction de William Christie, mise en scène de Pier Luigi Pizzi, interprété par Dietrich Henschel, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Sonia Prina, Antonio Abete, Augustin Prunell-Friend..."
"A famous production from 1978, part of the Ponnelle-Harnoncourt Monteverdi opera cycle."
"A film of Monteverdi's vibrant setting of the Greek legend of the musician Orpheus and his ill-fated wife Eurydice. The action takes place in legendary Greece."
"Based on the legend of Orpheus and Euridice: their marriage, Euridice's death, Orfeo's decend to Hades, his promise with Pluto in order to bring her back to Earth, his ultimate disappointment of loosing Euridice again caused by broken promise."
"Monteverdi's reworking of the most popular of all Greek myths, that of Orpheus and Euridice."@en
"Monteverdi's reworking of the most popular of all Greek myths, that of Orpheus and Euridice."
"This opera was written by Montiverdi under the commission of the Duke of Mantua, who wanted the legend of Orfeo, revived in the previous century, set to music. Montiverdi combines dramatic tension, eloquent expression of human passions and formal variety in his setting of Stiggio's libretto."
"This is a performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed by Orchestra of the Opera National de Lyon and conducted by Philip Pickett."
"Operavoorstelling, opgenomen op 21 en 23 september 2009 in het Teatro alla Scala in Milaan."
""Monteverdi's reworking of the most popular of all Greek myths, that of Orpheus and Euridice""