• Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" - the root of all opera?

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 15 20:16:05 2020
    On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 7:14:35 AM UTC-10, DC wrote:
    (NPR) - Claudio Monteverdi often gets credit for inventing
    opera, which is more than just music combined with
    storytelling. It's also stagecraft, poetry and even
    philosophy � all rolled into one unique form of artistic
    expression. But, could Monteverdi really have invented it?
    Technically, the answer is no. Opera evolved amidst a
    community of Italian artists in the last years of the 16th
    century. But nearly all of their earliest works have been
    lost. The ones that are still around aren't very
    satisfying, and they're almost never performed. That is,
    until you get to Monteverdi's Orfeo, in 1607.
    With Orfeo, Monteverdi created the first opera that both
    survived the centuries and stuck in the repertory � a work
    of music and theater that displayed a brand new sort of
    artistic alchemy...
    Continued: http://xrl.us/Orfeo2
    Music samples (Amazon.com): http://xrl.us/Orfeo

    "The Psychology of Orpheus: Why Do We Look Back?":

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/triggered/202011/the-psychology-orpheus-why-do-we-look-back

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