With Claudio Monteverdi's moving scenes from L'Orfeo and the highly dramatic Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, this programme tells of passionate love, tragic error and irrevocable loss. Heroes fight, lovers fail – and only at the moment of death is the truth recognised.
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Complemented by music by Luigi Rossi, Antonio Sartorio, Lorenzo Allegri and Maurizio Cazzati, a musical drama of harrowing intensity unfolds – passionate, expressive and of timeless emotional power.
Works by
Claudio Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Antonio Sartorio, Lorenzo Allegri und Maurizio Cazzati
Additional information
Cast
- Theorbo, Conductor: Christina Pluhar
- Orfeo, Text: Rolando Villazón
- Euridice, Clorinda: Céline Scheen
- Messenger: Luciana Mancini
- Tancredi: Renato Dolcini
- Ensemble L’Arpeggiata
Dates
November 2026
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