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Orfeo dolente - Wikipedia

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Orfeo dolente (Orpheus inconsolable) is an opera by Domenico Belli to a libretto by Gabriello Chiabrera, an example of "representative style" of the early Baroque era. The work is divided into five interludes which were performed for the first time as intermedi in a performance of Torquato Tasso's play Aminta at the Palazzo della Gherardesca [it] in Florence in 1616.^[1]

Operas based on the Orpheus myths, and especially the story of his journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice, were amongst the earliest examples of the art form, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo is a notable example. Belli's work is regarded as one of the best examples of recitar cantando (acting while singing), a concept that had developed in the late 16th century.^[1]^[2]

Most of Belli's music has been lost. However, by virtue of his music in Orfeo dolente, he came to be seen as a "researcher of passions through music". In this work he tried different musical methods to express passions in adherence to the new requirements for court performances. He enriched the monodic formula by using violent dissonances, as be seen in his arias, including "Di vostri occhi" and "Ardo ma non ardisco". He has been described as sublime in the tragic.^{[citation needed]} He emphasized this aspect by resisting the vocal embellishments used by his contemporaries.^[3]

Florentine by birth and with a similar approach to other "fathers" of opera such as Jacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini, Emilio de' Cavalieri and Marco da Gagliano, Belli worked on other aspects of court spectacles, such as dances, intermedi, and even a maritime fable on the history of Andromeda (music lost) which was highly praised by Giulio Caccini. He published two collections of music the same year as Orfeo dolente, Officium defunctorum and First Book of Arias. They are his only surviving works.^[1]

Orfeo dolente was transcribed by Francesco Malipiero in 1951, and by Bruno Maderna in 1968.^[3] A free edition was released by Musica Antica Rotherhithe in 2021 following its first complete performance in modern times in London, United Kingdom.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lattarico. Jean-François (2007). "Florence 1616: A musical laboratory" in Firenze 1616 (liner notes), pp. 52–57. Alpha Records. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
^ Hill, John Walter (January–June 1979). "Oratory Music in Florence, I: "Recitar Cantando", 1583-1655", Acta Musicologica, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 108-136. Retrieved 5 June 2018 (subscription required).
^ ^a ^b Opéra Baroque. "Orfeo dolente (Orphée inconsolable)". Retrieved 5 June 2018 (in French)

External links

Orfeo dolente (Belli, Domenico): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
L'Orfeo Dolente, opera in 5 intermedi, description on AllMusic
Libretto in Italian
Mention of its first complete performance in modern times

v t e Orpheus and Eurydice
Characters	Eurydice Orpheus
Orphean operas	Euridice (1600, Peri) Euridice (1602, Caccini) L'Orfeo (1607, Monteverdi) Orfeo dolente (1616, Belli) La morte d'Orfeo (1619, Landi)f Orfeo (1647, Rossi) Orfeo (1672, Sartorio) La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (c. 1686, Charpentier) Orpheus (1726, Telemann) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762, Gluck) discography L'anima del filosofo (1791, Haydn) Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, Offenbach) Orpheus und Eurydike (1921, Krenek) L'Orfeide (1925, Malipiero) Orpheus and Eurydice (1975, Zhurbin, rock opera) The Mask of Orpheus (1986, Birtwistle) The Second Mrs Kong (1994, Birtwistle) The Corridor (2009, Birtwistle) Eurydice (2020, Aucoin)
Musicals	Hadestown Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Plays	Eurydice/Point of Departure (1941, Anouilh) Orfeu da Conceição (1956, de Moraes) Orpheus Descending (1957, Williams) Eurydice (2003, Ruhl)
Films	The Orphic Trilogy The Blood of a Poet (1930) Orphée (1950) Testament of Orpheus (1960) Black Orpheus (1959) Euridice BA 2037 (1975) Parking (1985) Shredder Orpheus (1989) Orfeu (1999) Moulin Rouge! (2001) You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2012)
Poetry	Sir Orfeo (c. late thirteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene (c. 1480) Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) "Eurydice" (1999)
Novels	The Einstein Intersection (1967) Gravity's Rainbow (1973) The Medusa Frequency (1987) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Veniss Underground (2003) "L'Esprit de L'Escalier" (2021)
Art	Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice Poem Strip
Albums	Reflections (1970) Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) Metamorpheus (2005) Hadestown (2010) Orfeas (2010) Reflektor (2013) Wasteland, Baby! (2019)
Ballet	Orpheus (1948) Chaconne (1976) Orpheus Alive (2019)
Video games	Hades (2020) The Battle of Olympus Don't Look Back
Related	The Gaze of Orpheus Orpheus Monument Orpheus no Mado Orphism

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