Opera Explained: Monteverdi: Orfeo

David Timson

2008-11-18 • Spoken Word

Tracklist

• 1
  Introduction to … Background: Introduction
  6:42
• 2
  Introduction to … Background: Monteverdi's Early Life and Education
  6:34
• 3
  Introduction to … Background: Monteverdi's Other Operas and Performance Practice
  5:16
• 4
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Prologue
  5:56
• 5
  Introduction to … Orfeo: a Shepherd Summons the Chorus to Sing
  3:45
• 6
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Orpheus Is Told That Eurydice Is Dead
  7:01
• 7
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Expressions of Grief from the Chorus and Shepherds
  3:46
• 8
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Orpheus Descends Into Hell
  7:13
• 9
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Charon's Response to Orpheus
  5:56
• 10
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Pluto's Pronouncement
  4:45
• 11
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Doubts Assail Orpheus
  6:47
• 12
  Introduction to … Orfeo: Orpheus's Long Lament and the First Ending
  6:12
• 13
  Introduction to … Orfeo: the Second Ending
  7:07