It is truly astonishing to think that this is Glyndebourne’s first Monteverdi L’Orfeo. It is not the first Monteverdi there, though: both Poppea (first seen1962), and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (1972) have previously featured. One of the earliest operas (premiered in Mantua in 1607), and certainly opera’s first fully-formed masterpiece, L’Orfeo has the distinction of effectively birthing a now global art-form. Director William Kentridge himse…
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