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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 92. Chapters: Aida discography, Andrea Chenier discography, Arabella discography, Ariadne auf Naxos discography, Capriccio discography, Carmen discography, Cavalleria rusticana discography, Cosi fan tutte discography, Das Rheingold discography, Der Ring des Nibelungen discography, Der Rosenkavalier discography, Dido and Aeneas discography, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail discography, Die Fledermaus discography, Die Frau ohne Schatten discography, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg discography, Die Walkure discography, Don Carlos discography, Don Giovanni discography, Elektra discography, Faust discography, Fidelio discography, Gianni Schicchi discography, Gotterdammerung discography, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria discography, Il trovatore discography, Iphigenie en Tauride discography, L'incoronazione di Poppea discography, L'Orfeo discography, Lamento d'Arianna discography, La boheme discography, La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein discography, La traviata discography, Lohengrin discography, Lucia di Lammermoor discography, Macbeth discography (opera), Madama Butterfly discography, Norma discography, Orfeo ed Euridice discography, Pagliacci discography, Parsifal discography, Pelleas et Melisande discography, Porgy and Bess discography, Rigoletto discography, Rinaldo discography, Salome discography, Siegfried discography, Tannhauser discography, The Barber of Seville discography, The Bartered Bride discography, The Flying Dutchman discography, The Magic Flute discography, The Marriage of Figaro discography, The Merry Widow discography, The Tales of Hoffmann discography, Tosca discography, Tristan und Isolde discography, Turandot discography, William Tell discography. Excerpt: These lists show the audio and visual recordings of the opera L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. The opera was first performed in Mantua in 1607, at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga, and is one of the earliest of all operas. The first recording of L'Orfeo was issued in 1939, a freely adapted version of Monteverdi's music edited by Giacomo Benvenuti, given by the orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Ferrucio Calusio. In 1949 the Berlin Radio Orchestra under Helmut Koch recorded the complete opera, on long-playing records (LPs). The advent of LP recordings was, as Harold Schonberg later wrote, an important factor in the postwar revival of interest in Renaissance and Baroque music, and from the mid-1950s recordings of L'Orfeo have been issued on many labels. Koch's landmark version was reissued in 1962, when it was compared unfavourably with others that had by then been issued. The 1969 recording by Nicholas Harnoncourt and the Vienna Concentus Musicus, using Harnoncourt's edition based on period instruments, was praised for "making Monteverdi's music sound something like the way he imagined." In 1981 Seigfried Heinrich, with the Early Music Studio of the Hesse Chamber Orchestra, recorded a version which re-created the original Striggio libretto ending, adding music from Monteverdi's 1616 ballet Tirsi e Clori for the Bacchante scenes. Among more recent recordings, that of Emmanuelle Haim has been praised for its dramatic effect. The 21st century has seen the issue of an increasing number of recordings on DVD. Notes Sources The following discography for Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice is mainly based on the research of Giuseppe Rossi, which appeared in the programme notes to the performance of the work at the 70th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2007, under the title "Discografia - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphee et Eurydice)." Rossi's data has been checked against the sources referenced in the notes. The discography gives the language of the reco
