ORFEO 2.0: a baROCK opera

Description

L’Orfeo
A tale in music
Music by Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto by Alessandro Striggio
Version for seven voices, rock ensemble and baroque orchestra
Original arrangements by Massimiliano Toni

1. Prologo
2. In questo lieto
3. Muse
4. Lasciate i Monti – A
5. Rosa del ciel/Io non dirò qual sia
6. Lasciate i Monti – B
7. Vieni Imeneo
8. Ma s’il nostro gioir
9. Ecco pur/Mira ch’à se n’alletta
10. Dunque fa degno Orfeo
11. Vi ricorda ò boschi ombrosi
12. Mira, deh mira Orfeo/Ahi caso acerbo – A
13. Tu se’ morta
14. Ahi caso acerbo – B/Ma io ch’in questa lingua
15. Scorto da te mio Nume
16. O tu ch’innanzi morte
17. Possente Spirto
18. Ben mi lusinga alquanto
19. Ahi sventurato amante/Ei dorme
20. Signor quell’infelice
21. Ecco il gentil/Qual honor
22. Questi i campi di Tracia
23. Epilogo

Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo represented a turning point in European classical music but when it was performed for the first time on February 24, 1607 in Mantua under the direction of Monteverdi himself it was contemporary music!

From an idea by Massimiliano Toni, Orfeo 2.0:a baRock opera was born: new arrangements that see two orchestras dialogue, one baroque and one modern, will take us back to the sounds of 70s experimentation to listen to Claudio Monteverdi’s much-loved Orfeo.