Table of Contents

Part I. Text and Context: 1. The Mantuan Orfeo Iain Fenlon; 2. The Orpheus myth and the libretto of Orfeo F. W. Sternfeld; 3. Orfeo, Act V: Alessandro Striggios's original ending John Whenham; 4. Five acts: one action John Whenham; Part II. The Rediscovery of Orfeo: 5. The rediscovery of Orfeo Nigel Fortune; 6. A review of vincent d'Indy's performance (Paris 1904) Romain Rolland; 7. Orpheus: the neoclassic vision Joseph Kerman; Part III. Re-creating Orfeo for the Modern Stage: 8. Solving the musical problems Jane Glover; 9. Telling the story David Freeman; Appendices.

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A detailed study of the earliest opera in the modern repertoire.