MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo (1/12)

MONTEVERDI LOrfeo (1978)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, direction
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, direction
Philippe Huttenlocher (Orfeo)
Dietlinde Turban (Euridice)
Trudeliese Schmidt (Music, Hope)
Roland Hermann (Apollo)
Glenys Linos (Messenger, Proserpina)
Werner Gröschel (Plutone)
Hans Franzen (Caronte)
Peter Keller (First Shepherd)
Francisco Araiza (Second Shepherd, First Spirit)
Ballet de l'Opéra de Zürich
Choeur de l'Opéra de Zürich
Das Monteverdi ensemble
Pet Halmen, costumes

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Claudio
• Monteverdi
• Orfeo
• L´Orfeo
• Harnoncourt
• Ponelle
• MONTEVERDI
• LOrfeo
• (2/12)

[MrConductor1984]

@avintar don't forget that this recording was made in 1978 when the use of period instruments was something completely unthinkable. Harnoncourt and Ponnelle re-discovered Monteverdi for the stage and using the right instruments was a part of it..

[cgordonjr]

Thanks for sharing. Monteverdi was fabulous!

[gomongio]

if i wanted to buy this opera (L'Orfeo), which version you would recommend me to buy (whatever, CD or DVD) ... the only one I've seehn and heard completely once on Films&Arts is Savall's... I want to hear the voice of you who DO know this opera that much to recommend me one superb version to get.

[lambbroadway]

I have this on VHS and now on DVD. And if it comes out on Blu-ray I will buy it! This is an absolutely remarkable performance of Monteverdi's classic. (Same goes to Ponelle's/Harnoncourt's Poppea) I wish they released the audio as well...

As an opera movie, it is imaginative and still seems fresh. Why nowaday's directors can't do staging like this? Modernism is not the answer when it comes to reneissance music. Thanx for the upload!

[FRAGIORGIO1]

Superb version of this masterpiece! I wonder if it inspired Savall in part later in time. The two versions are marvelous. The only defects I found (for me) in this was the presence of a clergyman dressed a la mode of four centuries later in the beginning (why?) and the sound of the orchestra seemed too Muted. The basso (Charon) was a real Basso! Bravi tutti ! Many thanks to you, Veraeikon !

[MisterPapageno]

After listening to Savall's and Alessandrini's renditions, this prologio sounds rather heavy: by the way, they were at the very begenning of Renassance/Baroque re-discovering ;)

[estesoyojajaja]

...and this is the beginning of a new style of music, one that will last for 100 yrs or so. Baroque.

[Youkali67]

Por años he querido ver esta maravilla, es simplemente perfecta.

[PaulusLXXX]

¡¡Magnífica puesta en escena!! Una verdadera joya. Muchas gracias.

[sealforvr]

Opera evolved from court masques, so there are elements of the masque in this staging. Narrators are used to set up scenes, sets are 2 dimensional as if staged in a palace hall and the audience is invited to view themselves as guests of the Prince of Mantua. I see no attempt at alienation, rather an effort to bring the past to a new audience.

[Leporello682]

Mantova 24 febbraio 1607.

Coloro che ebbero la fortuna di poter assistere alla prima rappresentazione de "L'Orfeo" di Claudio Monteverdi su libretto di Alessandro Striggio junior, molto probabilmente non lo sapevano ancora, ma sarebbero stati da lì a poco testimoni di un evento che avrebbe cambiato radicalmente la storia della musica, dell'opera e del teatro.

Grazie Veraeikon per averci fatto conoscere questa versione che assieme a quella di Savall è senz'altro la migliore.

[65maho]

God, I love this Opera and Performance!