La fabula d'Orfeo [The Story of Orpheus] (1471 - 1472)

Original id: 
12801
Start date: 
1 January 1471
End date: 
31 December 1472
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Adaptation
Production notes: 
Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in . Twice recast as a drama (entertainment in verse, half-spoken, half-sung). Composer - unknown. Music lost. 1471-72? And 1480. Composed in 1494.
Media of production: 
Vocal music (non-theatrical), accompanied/unaccompanied (oratorio, cantata etc)
Reading/recitation
Companies:
Ancient works:

Information related to this production

Script Author(s)
Metamorphoses Ovid
Georgics Virgil
Person Role Notes
Angelo Poliziano AKA Politian Writer
Source Format Location if held at the APGRD Pagination
Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. Vol.2 Book library 784 Pirrotta & Povoledo 1982, pp. 3-37 passim, 283-92 / Kosinski 1989, pp. 17f. / Saslow 1986, pp. 121-24 / Grove 1980, 15.42 / Segal 1989, pp. 168f. / Levin 1969, p. 40

How to cite this production

La fabula d'Orfeo [The Story of Orpheus] (1471 - 1472), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/12801 <12 May 2024>