The first great opera.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England) | February 27, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: By Thomas Hall

Opera North is once again setting up camp at Newcastle Theatre Royal for a welcome spring stay. Thomas Hall previews what's on offer.

Wherever Monteverdi's Orfeo is billed for performance it is usually qualified as the first "real", "great", "proper" or "genuine" opera written.

It's as though we would rather have done with it and simply call it the world's first opera ( as though history would be more neat and tidy without its predecessors.

But, like most great art works, Orfeo (which, together with Mozart's The ...

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