L'Orfeo, SV 318 (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• CPDL #17022:  Finale 2006

Editor: Sabine Cassola (submitted 2008-06-15).   Score information: A4, 81 pages, 1.61 MB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transcribed from edition of 1609.

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• CPDL #11421: 

Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-04-08).   Score information: A4, 25 pages, 270 kB   Copyright: © 2006 Philip Legge

Edition notes: Score currently includes only: Toccata – Prologue – Act One. Transcribed from the 1615 reprint.

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Title: L'Orfeo, Favola in Musica
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
and solos
Solo rôles:

La Musica (Music)	Prologue	soprano
Orfeo	Act 1	tenor
Euridice	Act 1	soprano
Ninfa (A nymph)	Act 1	soprano
Pastori (Shepherds)	Act 1	soprano, alto, 2 tenors, bass

Genre: Secular, Opera

Language: Italian
Instruments: Orchestra

flute, cornetti, clarino, trombe, trombones, strings, chitarroni, double harp, regal, two organs

Published: Ricciardo Amadino, Venice, 1609, and reprinted 1615.

Description: While there were semi-successful operatic experiments in Florence in the 1590s, Monteverdi's Orfeo was the first truly viable opera, first produced to great acclaim in February of 1607 in Mantua and the full score published soon after in Venice by Monteverdi's usual firm Amadino. The libretto was written by Alessandro Striggio (II), son of the Florentine composer Alessandro Striggio.

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