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Tue 4 Aug 2015

• 17:45

  Proms Extra

  Royal College of Music

  Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts an introduction to Monteverdi's Orfeo, with guests Sarah Lenton and David Vickers.

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• 19:30

  Prom 25: Monteverdi – Orfeo

  Royal Albert Hall

  Period-performance specialist Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the work often credited as being the world’s first opera – Monteverdi’s 'Orfeo' (1607).

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  Period-performance specialist Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the work often credited as being the world’s first opera – Monteverdi’s 'Orfeo' (1607).

  Programme

  • • • Claudio Monteverdi
      • L'Orfeo(107 mins)(sung in Italian)

  Performers

  • Krystian Adam

    Orpheus
    Orpheus
  • Mariana Flores

    Eurydice/Hope
    Eurydice/Hope
  • Francesca Aspromonte

    Music/Messenger
    Music/Messenger
  • Gianluca Buratto

    Charon/Pluto
    Charon/Pluto
  • Francesca Boncompagni

    Persephone
    Persephone
  • Andrew Tortise

    Apollo/Shepherd 1
    Apollo/Shepherd 1
  • Esther Brazil

    Nymph
    Nymph
  • Gareth Treseder

    Shepherd 2/Spirit 2/Echo
    Shepherd 2/Spirit 2/Echo
  • Nicholas Mulroy

    Spirit 1
    Spirit 1
  • James Hall

    Shepherd 3
    Shepherd 3
  • David Shipley

    Shepherd 4/Spirit 3
    Shepherd 4/Spirit 3
  • Monteverdi Choir
  • English Baroque Soloists
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Claudio Monteverdi

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