Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-cen

"That Ellen Rosand's understanding of seventeenth-century Venetian opera is encyclopedic has long been recognized. By focusing her attention now on all three of

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in

"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of th