ANNA TEDESCO (Università di Palermo)
17/05/2023, ore 15, Università di Palermo
In 1932 Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo was staged in Cairo. This was the first staged performance in modern times. In 1934 the opera would be represented in Perugia and at the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome, in 1935 at La Scala. Behind this first Egyptian revival and the one in Perugia was the musician and conductor Guido Visconti di Modrone, who had already conducted L'Orfeo on a tour that had touched several Italian cities in 1910. Author of the edition used on that occasion was Giacomo Orefice, a composer and teacher of some renown. Through new sources, we aim to illustrate these two figures and the circumstances of this staging.