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| 5.0 classic | musichub | January 31st 22 |
There are some questions about whether this, Monteverdi's last opera (and last work written during his lifetime), was entirely written by him. Whether or not it was, there's no doubt that it advances the operatic form a considerable distance compared to where it was at the time of L'Orfeo. 28 different vocal parts are featured here, and the radical textual choice (a scandalous love affair that has caused ethical debates to this day) shows how opera was already expanding from the precedents that its theatrical predecessors, the Greek dramatists, had set millennia previously. Quite simply, one of the most daring pieces of music composed to this point, directing the world to the 18th century over 50 years before it had even started.
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| 4.5 superb | solrage | December 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | March 24th 19 |
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