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favola pastorale in un prologo e cinque atti
Monteverdi's seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), who has died from a snake bite. In a new production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson, the opera receives a powerful and inspiring performance from a fine cast, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the much-admired Italian early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini.
libretto di Alessandro Striggio ; musica di Claudio Monteverdi.
This edition of the music is a critical one by Rinaldo Alessandrini.
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 21, 2014).
Georg Nigl, Orfeo ; Roberta Invernizzi, Euridice ; Sara Mingardo, Messaggera ; Sara Mingardo, Speranza ; Luigi De Donato, Caronte ; Raffaella Milanesi, Proserpina ; Giovanni Battista Parodi, Plutone ; Roberta Invernezzi, Eco ; Furio Zanasi, Apollo ; Nicola Strada, Solo Dancer ; Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala ; Concerto Italiano, Basso continuo ; Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor ; Robert Wilson, Director.
Recorded live at La Teatro alla Scala 21st & 23rd December 2009.
[Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex] : Opus Arte, 2011 publisher catalog number