ELLY AMELING (SOpranO)
EILEEN POULTER (soprano) VIVIEN TOWNLEY (soprano)
ANNA REYNOLDS (mezzo-soprano) JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) CHARLES BRETT (counter-tenor) THEO AI.TMEYER (tenor) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) JOHN FRYATT (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) STAFFORD DEAN (bass) MONTEVERDI CHOIR
PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE
MONTEVERDI ORCHESTRA leader SYLVIA CI.EAVER conductor JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Part 1
Orfeo: Favola in musica
Edited by JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Libretto by ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO Prologue; Act 1; Act 2 (sung in Italian)
Scene: the fields of Thrace Cast: