Landi: La morte d'Orfeo

Les Talens Lyriques;
Rousset, Christophe

NBD 0111 V

Cecilia Molinari, Gaia Petrone, Rosina Fabius and Magdalena Pluta, Mezzo-sopranos • Kacper Szelążek, Countertenor • Juan Francisco Gatell and Emiliano Gonzales Toro, Tenors • Renato Dolcini, BaritoneAlexander Miminoshvili, Bass-baritone • Salvo Vitale, Bass • Pierre Audi, Stage Director • Stefano Landi was an influential early opera composer, and La morte d’Orfeo is regarded as a milestone in the development of the genre. The narrative starts where Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo ends, taking us through the remaining adventures of Orpheus in the underworld. Beaten to death and torn apart by the fearsome maenads, Orpheus survives as a wandering soul and is finally reincarnated as a star in the sky. Landi succeeded in turning Greek tragedy into timeless music-drama, the starting point of all opera, and Seen and Heard International declared that it had ‘never before encountered such technical perfection’ in Pierre Audi’s Amsterdam production.

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

25-05-2020

0730099011167