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Talk Like An Opera Geek: The Birth Of Opera

Orpheus makes his way through the underworld, in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of one of the first operas, Monteverdi's <em>L'Orfeo</em>, from 1607. (Deutsche Grammophon)
Orpheus makes his way through the underworld, in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of one of the first operas, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, from 1607. (Deutsche Grammophon)

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