Works

L'Orfeo

Citation Formats

General Reference

Arts and Music Atlas. "L'Orfeo." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/l-orfeo.

APA Style

Arts and Music Atlas. (n.d.). L'Orfeo. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/l-orfeo

BibTeX

@misc{artsandmusicatlas-l-orfeo,
  author = {Arts and Music Atlas},
  title = {L'Orfeo},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/works/l-orfeo},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

L'Orfeo is Claudio Monteverdi's opera on the myth of Orpheus, first performed in Mantua in 1607. Building on the Florentine Camerata's stile rappresentativo pioneered by Jacopo Peri's Dafne (1598), Monteverdi's setting far surpassed its Florentine predecessors in musical complexity and dramatic interest, and it is widely treated as the first opera to combine sustained musical sophistication with genuine theatrical drama.

Facts

Year Created

1607 1

Medium

Opera: sung drama with orchestral accompaniment 1

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