L'Orfeo

Composer: Monteverdi, Claudio

Librettist/Text Author: Striggio, Alessandro

Libretto Source: Ovid

Conductor: Malgoire, Jean-Claude

Apollo: Rabier, Philippe

Caronte: Delaigue, Renaud

Euridice: Gerstenhaber, Cyrille

La Messaggera: Kaique, Estelle

La Speranza: Jaroussky, Philippe

Orfeo: Rensburg, Kobie van

Plutone: Deletre, Bernard

Proserpina: Gillot, Delphine

Set Designer: Lautem, Jacky

Costume Designer: Pinson, Christine Rabot

Lighting Designer: Lautem, Jacky

Choreographer: Montllo, Roser

Choreographer: Seth, Brigitte

Stage Director: Malgoire, Jean-Claude

Stage Director: Lautem, Jacky

Television Director: Lautem, Jacky

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Date of Production: 2004

Venue: Municipal Theatre, Tourcoing

Playing Time: 01:51:47

Catalogue Number: 33477

Libretto

L'Orfeo EN

L'Orfeo IT

Synopsis

L'Orfeo

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In some respects, Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607) is to the history of Italian opera what Dante's Divine Comedy is to the history of Italian literature: a masterpiece that stands at the very beginning of the journey. With Orfeo and the operas that followed it, Monteverdi had the substantial merit of immediately demonstrating the infinite possibilities of this new genre, which would leave an imprint on three centuries of European culture. In the present edition the French conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire is at the head of a cast of Baroque opera specialists.