Although not the earliest opera, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607) is the first masterpiece of the genre, and surprisingly Glyndebourne has never staged it before. It fits in with the festival’s present season which features other operas in which musicians and artists are prominent – Tosca, Il turco in Italia, and Ariadne auf Naxos (and Belmonte pretends to be an architect in The Abduction from the Seraglio). Orpheus is the musician par excellence of …
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