Claudio MONTEVERDI
(1567 - 1643)
L'Orfeo
favola in musica in a prologue and 5 acts (Mantua, 1607)
libretto: Alessandro Striggio
La Fonte Musica
DIR.: MICHELE PASOTTI
recorded: August 31, 2025, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
[Festival Early Music Utrecht 2025]
period instruments
lossless (flac)
source: NPO Klassiek (stream)
libretto with English translation included [pdf]
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Characters:
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, soprano (La Speranza)
Francesca Cassinari, soprano (Proserpina)
Alena Dantcheva, soprano (La Messaggera)
Cristina Fanelli, soprano (Ninfa)
Monica Piccinini, soprano (La Musica)
Anna Piroli, soprano (Euridice)
Massimo Altieri, tenor (Pastore 1, Eco)
Jacob Lawrence, tenor (Pastore 3, Spirito 3))
Massimo Lombardi, tenor (Spirito 1)
Andres Montilla, tenor (Pastore 2)
Riccardo Pisani, tenor (Apollo)
Roberto Rilievi, tenor (Spirito 2)
Mauro Borgioni, baritone (Orfeo)
Matteo Bellotto, bass (Pastore 4)
Guglielmo Buonsanti, bass (Spirito 4)
Alessandro Ravasio, bass (Plutone)
Salvo Vitale, bass (Caronte)
(01) prologue [07'42"]
(02) acts 1 & 2 [40'42"]
(03) act 3 [25'13"]
(04) act 4 [16'06"]
(05) act 5 [16'01"]
Picture: Orpheus and Eurydice (Marcantonio Raimondi, c1480-1543)
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