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Orfeo (1607), by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, is regarded as the first modern opera. In this work Monteverdi took the declamatory singing style called monody, which had given rise to opera around 1600, and added a variety of musical and instrumental settings. Monody emphasized flexible, natural text declamation to a simple instrumental accompaniment; this passage, “Tu se’ morta” (“You are dead”), is sung by Orfeo when he learns of his lover’s death.
"Tu se' morta from L'Orfeo" by Claudio Monteverdi, performed by Concerto Vocale, from Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Cat.# Harmonia Mundi HMC 901553.54) (p)1995 Harmonia Mundi. All rights reserved.
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