Opera (dramma per musica) in 5 acts
Libretto: Alessandro Striggio
First performance: 24 February 1607, Accademia degl'Invaghiti
Recorded: 21st & 23rd December 2009, La Teatro alla Scala
Orfeo: Georg Nigl
Euridice: Roberta Invernizzi
Messaggera: Sara Mingardo
Speranza: Sara Mingardo
Caronte: Luigi De Donato
Proserpina: Raffaella Milanesi
Plutone: Giovanni Battista Parodi
Eco: Roberta Invernezzi
Apollo: Furio Zanasi
Solo Dancer: Nicola Strada
Monteverdi's seminal first opera tells the dramatic story from Ovid?s Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (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.
Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.
"Robert Wilson meets Monteverdi with successful results"
---The Opera Critic |
[ NTSC ] (1080i)