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.
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Significance Less than a decade after the debut of Dafne and the two Euridici , opera spread to Mantua. The Orpheo (1607) of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) owed much to its Florentine predecessors, but it far surpassed them in musical complexity and dramatic interest.
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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. It i
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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.
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