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	Encyclopedia: Orfeo
		Orfeo (L'Orfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognized as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua.
		Orfeo is consumed by grief, and Apollo, his father, comes down from the heavens to take his son away, where he can behold the image of Euridice forever in the stars.
		When Orfeo, accompanied by his lyre (represented in the opera by a harp), begs for pity in the aria Deh placatevi con me, he is at first interrupted by cries of "No!" from the Furies, but they are eventually softened by the sweetness of his singing and let him in.
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		Orfeo (L'Orfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognized as an
		Venetian School had been doing this, with varying precision, for about two decades, the instrumentation in the case of Orfeo is unusually explicit.
		The plot is clearly delineated with musical contrasts, and the melodies are linear and clear; much of the writing uses the style of monody which was pioneered by the
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	Orfeo Ed Euridice Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ CreatedByGod.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Orfeo ed Euridice (also known as Orpheus und Euridyka) is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
		Orfeo sends the others away and sings of his grief in the aria Chiamo il mio ben cosi, the three verses of which are interrupted by expressive recitatives.
		On the way out of Hades, Euridice is delighted to be returning to earth, but Orfeo, remembering the condition related by Amore in Act I, lets go of her hand and refuses to look at her.
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	Learn more about Opera in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Opera did not remain confined to court audiences for long; in 1637 the idea of a "season" (Carnival) of publicly-attended operas supported by ticket sales emerged in Venice.
		Influential 17th century composers of opera included Francesco Cavalli and Claudio Monteverdi whose Orfeo (1607) is the earliest opera still performed today.
		Monteverdi's later Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (1640) is also seen as a very important work of early opera.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Franz Joseph Haydn
		Although he contributed over twenty compositions to the operatic repertoire, not one of them or all of them together made the impression so widely felt at the hearing of his oratorios.
		His best known operas are "Acide e Galatea" and "Orfeo".
		The works which have made Haydn's name immortal are his oratorios, not so much because of their intrinsic merit musically, but because of the appeal they have made to popular taste.
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