Stephen Stubbs - Monteverdi L'orfeo - DVD

Monteverdi's Fourth Book of Madrigals explores differing emotional states of abandoned lovers through the most dramatic and amazingly modern music for vocal ensemble. This film follows the simultaneous break-up of 6 couples from shocking revelation.

C. Monteverdi - L'orfeo [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Released 2005 product/publication from Dynamic Italy

?British mezzo-soprano, Dame Janet Baker, chose to retire from the operatic stage singing the title role in Sir Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Orfeo ed Euridice. This 1982 recording from Glyndebourne, where Dame Janet appropriately began her professional career, proved a suitable crowning glory to the career of one of the great singing actresses of our age. Dame Janet's realisation of Orfeo, the grieving musician from Greek mythology, who follows his beloved wife Euridice to the depths of Hades in an attempt to bring her back from the dead, is totally convincing Inch... a quite staggering performance...Inch (MusicWeb International)