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John Eliot Gardiner

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The first installment of Gardiners lifelong magnum opus*Orfeo*is now available from the video recordings of the Monteverdi450 world tour of his three-part Monteverdi opera cycle!After his wedding, Orfeo journeys to the Underworld in pursuit of his wife Eurydice, who died after being bitten by a snake. He captivates Charon, the ferryman, with the power of music, reaches Pluto, the ruler of the Underworld, and pleads for permission to bring his wife back. With the intercession of his wife Proserpina, Pluto grants Orfeos request on the condition that he must never look back until he has left the underworldbutIn 2017, to mark the 450th anniversary of Monteverdis birth, Gardiner launched a major project titled Monteverdi450 and conducted a concert tour visiting 16 cities around the world from April through October 2017. Among these, he achieved the remarkable feat of performing the complete c