Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Produced in 1607 at the ducal palace in Mantua, Monteverdi's Orfeo is considered ...

Gardiner returns to San Francisco this month to conduct “Orfeo” at Davies Symphony Hall. The April 27 concert, presented as part of the S.F. Symphony”s Great Performers series, features the great ...

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Musicologists no longer insist that what has proved to be a uniquely innovative art form for four centuries was the exclusive product of scholars ...

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, unveiled in 1607 in Mantua, was the first masterpiece of the newly invented genre of opera. John Eliot Gardiner set the gold standard among recordings in 1987, with the late ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Just a few years after opera as a genre had originated in Italy, a substantial ...

The first act of Monteverdi's Orfeo, is dedicated to a raucous wedding celebration, after the marriage of Orfeo and Euridice. But by the second act, things go dark. While Orfeo is alone in the forest, ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. For example, there is cave art as old as 30,000 years -- the earliest paintings ever ...

A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe “The Comet/Poppea” radically pares ...

“There’s basically no (other) opera in the area,” said Jeffrey Sichel, assistant professor of theater at Bard College and director of “L’Orfeo.” “As we’ve been doing them, we find a tremendous ...

Ask John Eliot Gardiner about Monteverdi’s “Orfeo,” and he’ll tell you it’s an opera ahead of its time. “It’s quite amazing,” he says, “a work that probes a whole range of human emotions in a way you ...

Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. More a scene than a single, Orfeo's "Possente spirto" — "Powerful Spirit" — is his ...