Claudio Monteverdi's L’Orfeo
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Gran Teatre del Liceu La Rambla 51-59, 08002 Barcelona
Image courtesy of Vanitatis.
L’Orfeo, favola in musica premiered on February 24th, 1607, in a small hall of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua: almost the first opera or, at any rate, the oldest surviving complete opera. It was the beginning of a new era: L’Oracolo della musica put into practice the experimental language he had already used in his last madrigals, developing a new sound language that would represent the transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque. The literary text was in perfect communion with the music, becoming courtly entertainment that incited enormous interest and unlimited possibilities.
On the podium, René Jacobs, a unique expertise in these repertoires, completes the portrait commissioned by the theatre to review three operatic Orfeos: those by Telemann, Gluck and Monteverdi. Jacobs acclaimed as one of the public’s favourite conductors from this musical period, will lead us into the mysteries of this score, which retains all its modernity despite being more than 400 years old.
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