The world's first great opera still casts a powerful spell nearly 400 years after its creation, its charms intact onstage as well as on DVD. Jordi Savall's production of "L'Orfeo," recorded live in ...

When Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415, the school's principal early instrument ensemble, gave what was billed as the New York staged premiere of Luigi Rossi's L'ORFEO last week, it made me think of ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s perpetually astounding that the first real opera should have sprung as perfectly formed it did from Monteverdi’s pen in 1607.

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 ...

The tenor sings the title role and also conducts in this new recording that interest and spark but eccentricities; instrumentalists I Gemelli are very fine A decade ago, new recordings of the earliest ...

Vividly sung by an ensemble of 12 and exquisitely played by period group La Serenissima, Olivia Fuchs’s lively production of Monterverdi’s opera is full of contemporary references Monteverdi’s first ...

On June 29th and 30th, Killer Queen Opera Co. will be producing its next fully-staged production: Claudio Monteverdi's La Favola d'Orfeo. KQO is a NYC-based, female-led arts organization dedicated to ...

The opera's first two acts are both set in the fields of Thrace. In ACT ONE, Orfeo and Euridice are married in a raucous celebration that includes a chorus of shepherds and nymphs. But as ACT TWO ...