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A madrigal is a secular Italian song

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Here is a website with all information and a list of his works.

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Claudio Monteverdi- Bio, Albums, Pictures - Naxos Classical Music.

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Biography and work for Claudio Monteverdi, Listen to classical music and albums or compositions by Claudio Monteverdi online

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Here is Orfeo trying to convince a guard at the river Styx to let him pass into Hades

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Monteverdi Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo

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Huttenlochner sings - Possente spirito - L'Orfeo, Monteverdi

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Orfeo is performed by Philippe Huttenlochner in this Monteverdi's L'Orfeo adaptation. Nikolaus Harnoncurt conducting a superb period-instruments ensemble. Staged, directed and designed by Jean Pierre Ponnelle.

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Monteverdi's first opera was based on ancient Greek mythology, the story of Orfeo, who tries to go to Hades to bring his wife back to Earth.

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Video of Nero and Poppea singing together

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Philippe Jaroussky - Danielle de Niese: Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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His final opera was set in Rome, and was about the ruler Nero, who was a ruthless leader. It is titled Poppea, after the woman he loved.

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Monteverdi was a pioneer in the origins of opera, and wrote many sacred and secular works as well