centro cultural tina modotti Luigi Rossi Orfeo 1647
Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse, Lamento d’Orfeo Lasciate averno
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Luigi Rossi, Orfeo, 1647
Orfeo è un’opera lirica in un prologo e tre atti di Luigi Rossi su libretto di Francesco Buti rappresentata in prima assoluta il 2 marzo 1647 nel palazzo del defunto Cardinale di Richelieu (Palais Cardinal), divenuto da poco Palais-Royal, a Parigi … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
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Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse, Lamento d’Orfeo Lasciate averno
Recorded on 25.8.2016 at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival.
On 2nd March 1647 Mazarin had Orfeo, composed by Luigi Rossi, performed before Queen Anne of Austria and her children, among whom Louis XIV then aged 9; it was the first opera to be performed in France, in a breath-taking staging by the great engineer Giacomo Torelli.
Everything was new in these performances: the discovery of the great Italian castrati by the French public, the 24 King’s violins sharing the orchestra pit with many Italian musicians, a tragicomedy that would lay the groundwork for the future bases of French opera invented by Lully, or the machinery used for the changes of sets, that produced effects unknown until then.
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