L’Orfeo - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Favola in musica in a prologue and a five-act libretto by Alessandro Striggio
In Italian with German and English surtitles

The myth of Orfeo is a story about the power and impotence of music, and so it is no coincidence that the art form "opera" was created with this material: the premiere of Claudio Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" on February 24, 1607 in the palace of the Duke of Mantua is considered the hour of birth of opera and was an event in music history that radiated far beyond Italy. Programmatically, Claudio Monteverdi and his librettist Alessandro Striggio begin the work with a prologue of personified music. Claudio Monteverdi was the first to combine the new idea of a drama sung in declamation with the musical depiction of human emotions. At the Semperoper, Claudio Monteverdi's opera can now be experienced for the first time in a new production of the original version. The conductor and lutenist Wolfgang Katschner and his ensemble lautten compagney BERLIN will bring the score to life with historical instruments. The sought-after director and puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan will bring the myth to the stage in an interplay of singers and life-size puppets.



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