Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
From 31 August to 31 August Netherlands / Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht
La Fonte Musica tackles the very first 'real' opera in history: the revolutionary L'Orfeo (1607), which is given a surprising new reading.
Michele Pasotti and his musicians delved deeply into the text and the notes, and discovered a work that is much more than a museum piece. Monteverdi's ingenious synthesis - which forged recitatives, arias, madrigal choruses and dances into one irresistible whole - gains even more brilliance and urgency as a result. With flutes and strings in pastoral scenes, trombones in the underworld, and a regal worthy of Charon, La Fonte Musica restores the bridge between old and new, so mindfully sketched by Monteverdi.
Michele Pasotti and his musicians delved deeply into the text and the notes, and discovered a work that is much more than a museum piece. Monteverdi's ingenious synthesis - which forged recitatives, arias, madrigal choruses and dances into one irresistible whole - gains even more brilliance and urgency as a result. With flutes and strings in pastoral scenes, trombones in the underworld, and a regal worthy of Charon, La Fonte Musica restores the bridge between old and new, so mindfully sketched by Monteverdi.
