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L'Orfeo

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Opera in a prologue and five acts
Music by Monteverdi Libretto by ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO (sung in Italian): Records
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
HIS MAJESTY'S S AGBUTTS AND
CORNETTS/JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

Contributors

Music By:
Monteverdi Libretto
Unknown:
Alessandro Striggio
Unknown:
Eliot Gardiner
Music:
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Orpheus:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Eurydice:
Julianne Baird (soprano)
First shepherd/Echo:
Mark Tucker (tenor)
Second shepherd/Apollo:
Nigel Robson (tenor)
Third/Fourth shepherds:
Michael Chance (counter-Tenor)
Third/Fourth shepherds:
Simon Birchall (bass)
Messenger:
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-Soprano)
Hope:
Mary Nichols (mezzo-Soprano)
Charon/Third spirit:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Proserpine:
Diana Montague (mezzo-Soprano)
Pluto:
Willard White (bass-Baritone)
Spirits:
Howard Milner(tenor)
Spirits:
Nicholas Robertson (tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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