RESEARCH ON THE WEB - ESSAY: Discuss opera houses in Venice during Monteverdi's time, their mechanical abilities, performance practices and their audience, and how this has shaped the modern Broadway musical.
(NOTE: This is not an assignment about Monteverdi or his music.)
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MONTEVERDI LOrfeo (1978) This 1987 production is an excellent view into the elaborate staging and consumes of the time.
NikolausHarnoncourt, direction
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, direction
Philippe Huttenlocher (Orfeo)
Dietlinde Turban (Euridice)
Trudeliese Schmidt (Music, Hope)
Roland Hermann (Apollo)
Glenys Linos (Messenger, Proserpina)
Werner Gröschel (Plutone)
Hans Franzen (Caronte)
Peter Keller (First Shepherd)
Francisco Araiza (Second Shepherd, First Spirit)
Ballet de l'Opéra de Zürich
Choeur de l'Opéra de Zürich
Das Monteverdi ensemble
Pet Halmen, costumes