L'Orfeo

Claudio Monteverdi L'Orfeo opera to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. Directed 2009 by Robert Wilson at La Teatro alla Scala. Stars Roberta Invernizzi, Georg Nigl, Sara Mingardo, Luigi De Donato, Raffaella Milanesi, Giovanni Battista Parodi, Furio Zanasi, Eleonora Contucci, Anna Simboli, Martin Oro, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini, Marco Scavazza, Matteo Bellotto, Sergio Foresti, and Nicola Strada. Rinaldo Alessandrini conducts the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala. Basso continuo by Concerto Italinano. Set and lighting design by Robert Wilson; costume design by Jacques Reynaud; lighting design by A J Weissband; dramaturgy by Ellen Hammer; director's collaboration by Giuseppe Frigeni; set collaboration by Serge Von Arx; TV  direction by Emanuele Garofalo. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: Help!

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