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- In 1607, Monteverdi's first opera (and the oldest to grace modern stages with any frequency) L'Orfeo, was performed in Mantua. This was followed in 1608 by L'Arianna, which, despite its popularity at the time, no longer survives except in libretti, and in the title character's famous lament, a polyphonic arrangement of which appeared in his sixth book of madrigals (1614).
- Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo told the mythical tale of Orpheus - a musician who, when his wife Euridice died, went down to Hades, the land of the dead, to try to get her back. It was a tale to which composers would return time and time again.
- Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and the invention of opera by Tom Ford on 22 August, 2012 This 1607 masterpiece was the eureka moment in a new genre known today as opera.
Monteverdi Opera With Eurydice
Monteverdi's three great operas (a fourth, Arianna, only survives in part) are among the earliest surviving examples of opera, and are still regular fixtures on the international operatic repertoire. Orfeo was composed in 1607, and performed that year during the carnival in Mantua.
