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Jordi Savall

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A new video release of the opera *Orfeo* by master director Savall is now available!Orfeo, a Thracian bard, journeys to the underworld in pursuit of his wife Eurydice, who died after being bitten by a poisonous snake. Upon reaching Pluto, the ruler of the underworld, Orfeo pleads for permission to bring his wife back to the surface. With the intercession of his wife, Proserpina, Pluto grants Orfeos requestbut on the condition that until he reaches the surface, he must never look back at his wife following behind himIn 1607, Monteverdis *Orfeo*, which would come to be hailed as the first masterpiece of the newly born genre of opera, premiered in Mantua. This disc features *Orfeo*, recorded live in June 2021 at the Opra-Comique in Paris, where early music maestro Jordi Savall conducted Le Concert des Nations. This marks Savalls second video recording of the work (the first was in 2002 at the Gran