La morte d'Orfeo, Op. 2

Composer: Landi, Stefano

Librettist/Text Author: Anonymous

Conductor: Rousset, Christophe

Orchestra: Talens Lyriques, Les

Aurora / Fosforo: Petrone, Gaia

Ebro / Giove: Miminoshvili, Alexander

Euretti: Fabius, Rosina

Euretti / Calliope: Pluta, Magdalena

Fato / Fileno: Dolcini, Renato

Furore / Caronte: Vitale, Salvo

Ireno / Apolline: Gonzalez-Toro, Emiliano

Mercurio / Bacco: Szelazek, Kacper

Orfeo: Gatell, Francisco

Teti / Nisa / Lincastro / Euridice / Euretti: Molinari, Cecilia

Set Designer: Hetzer, Christof

Costume Designer: Duiveman, Robby

Lighting Designer: Purkrabek, Bernd

Stage Director: Audi, Pierre

Television Director: Vermeiren, Misjel

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Date of Production: 03-2018

Venue: Dutch National Opera

Playing Time: 01:51:25

Catalogue Number: 2.110661

UPC: 747313566150

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Stefano Landi was an influential early opera composer, and La morte d'Orfeo is regarded as a milestone in the development of the genre. The narrative starts where Monteverdi's L'Orfeo ends, taking is through the remaining adventures of Orpheus in the underworld. Beaten to death and torn apart by the fearsome maenads, Orpheus survives as a wandering soul and is finally reincarnated as a star in the sky. Landi succeeded in turning Greek tragedy into timeless music-drama, the staring point of all opera, and Seen and Heard International declared that it had 'never before encountered such technical perfection' in Pierre Audi's Amsterdam production.