On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 7:14:35 AM UTC-10, DC wrote:
(NPR) - Claudio Monteverdi often gets credit for inventing
opera, which is more than just music combined with
storytelling. It's also stagecraft, poetry and even
philosophy � all rolled into one unique form of artistic
expression. But, could Monteverdi really have invented it?
Technically, the answer is no. Opera evolved amidst a
community of Italian artists in the last years of the 16th
century. But nearly all of their earliest works have been
lost. The ones that are still around aren't very
satisfying, and they're almost never performed. That is,
until you get to Monteverdi's Orfeo, in 1607.
With Orfeo, Monteverdi created the first opera that both
survived the centuries and stuck in the repertory � a work
of music and theater that displayed a brand new sort of
artistic alchemy...
Continued: http://xrl.us/Orfeo2
Music samples (Amazon.com): http://xrl.us/Orfeo
"The Psychology of Orpheus: Why Do We Look Back?":
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/triggered/202011/the-psychology-orpheus-why-do-we-look-back
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