L'Orfeo

Created in 1607 and considered to be the first opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo remains a musical masterpiece to this day. Here, it is brought to life by Julian Prégardien's sublime interpretation, conducted by Stéphane Fuget.

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L'ORFEO

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)

Opera in a prologue and five acts to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, first performed in Mantua in 1607

Julian Prégardien · Gwendoline Blondeel
Marie Perbost · Eva Zaïcik · Cyril Auvity
Luc Bertin-Hugault · Luigi De Donato
Vlad Crosman · Paul Figuier

Les Épopées
Stéphane Fuget, conductor

In 1607, Claudio Monteverdi premiered his Orfeo for the Carnival opening in the Court Theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua. For the first time in the history of music, real characters are brought to life with deeply moving human feelings: with this exceptional dramatic power, modern opera is born. Stéphane Fuget, a great specialist in this repertoire and its historical instrumentalisation, after Le Retour d'Ulysse dans sa Patrie, has brought together some of the finest vocal and instrumental virtuosos for this new Orfeo: he has entrusted the eponymous role to the splendid and sensitive Julian Prégardien, to sing all the magnificence of the first true hero in the history of opera.

Recorded from October 17tth to 22nd 2022 and from September 11th to 13th 2023 in the Salle des Croisades at the Château de Versailles.

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