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February 24: L’Orfeo Premieres

On 24 February 1607, L’Orfeo, an opera providing the first fully developed version of the new genre and is a musical drama that is still regularly performed today, premiered. Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is a drama based on the Greek Legend of Orpheus; a story about his journey to Hades to bring his dead bride Eurydice […]