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L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
Front cover of the 1609 published score of L'Orfeo The early baroque opera L'Orfeo , composed by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger , was first performed in 1607. It is Monteverdi's first opera , and one of the earliest in the new genre.
Orfeo is Italian for Orpheus, a figure in Greek mythology who was chief among poets and musicians. Opera. L'Orfeo, a 1607 opera by Claudio Monteverdi;
Sir Orfeo, an anonymous narrative poem (c. late thirteenth or early fourteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene, a poem by Robert Henryson (c.1470) "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes", a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1907) Sonnets to Orpheus, an allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922)
Orpheus Playing the Violin, 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. Operas based on the Orphean myths, and especially the story of Orpheus' journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice, were amongst the earliest examples of the art form and continue to be written into the 21st century.
"Possente spirto, e formidabil nume" ("Mighty spirit and formidable god") is a key aria [1] from Act 3 of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, where Orpheus attempts to persuade Charon to allow him to pass into Hades and find Euridice.
Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607) Luigi Rossi's Orfeo (1647) Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers H.488 (1686). Charpentier also composed a cantata, Orphée descendant aux enfers H.471, (1683) Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Joseph Haydn's last opera L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice (1791)
Orfeo ed Euridice ([orˈfɛ.o e.d‿ewˈri.di.t͡ʃe]; French: Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi.