L'Orfeo, Favola in Musica SV.318 (Study score)

Description

Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, first performed in Mantua in 1607, is an important milestone in the history of opera. In this new critical edition the entire libretto by Alessandro Striggio is reproduced, including those parts of the text that are not set to music, in the original Italian as well as in a German and English translation.

• Preface
• Vorwort
• Prefazione
• Textual Notes/Einzelanmerkungen/Apparato critico
• L'Orfeo
• Atto primo
• Atto secondo
• Atto terzo
• Atto quarto
• Atto quinto
• Appendix: Striggio's Libretto with translations/Striggios Libretto mit Übersetzungen/Libretto di Striggio con traduzioni