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The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643).
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.
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.
Frontispiece of Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, Venice edition, 1609. The opera opens with a brief trumpet toccata. The prologue of La musica (a figure representing music) is introduced with a ritornello by the strings, repeated often to represent the "power of music" – one of the earliest examples of an operatic leitmotif. [81]
Claudio Monteverdi – L'Orfeo (published in Venice; performed in 1607). Johannes Nucius – Cantionum sacrarum for five and six voices, 2 books (Legnica: Nicolaus Sartorius) Jacopo Peri – Le varie musiche for one, two, and three voices (Florence: Cristoforo Marescotti) John Wilbye – The Second Set Of Madrigales To 3. 4.
Monteverdi, Venice 1582: 1583: Sacred: 179–189: Madrigali spirituali (11 pieces, details table B below) 4 voices: Monteverdi, Brescia 1583: Only bass partbook survives. Text: Fulvio Rorario [2] 1584: Madrigal/song: 1–21: Canzonette, libro primo (21 pieces, details table C below) 3 voices using Treble, S, A and T combinations: Monteverdi ...
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Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).