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"La Favola d'Orfeo"
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Directed by Andrea Mellis
Musical Director - Anthony Jenner

FestSpielHaus, St. Pölten 15th May 1997

It demands a certain creativity to perform an opera in a hall with no stage, curtain or orchestra pit: one replaces the baroque orchestra with a modern chamber-music ensemble, places the musicians on both sides of the playing area, for the chorus one integrates a team of enthusiastic members of the BORG (high school) Krems, fills the principal roles with top-quality soloists - and the acoustic work-of-art is ready, without its having lost a trace of its original beauty.

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The director, Andrea Mellis, is to be congratulated. Monteverdi would surely have turned in his grave - in order to watch.

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