Solo voices, orchestra SKU: HH.HH408-FSC
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Johannes Stoltz. Opera. Opera. Full score. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH408-FSC. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH408-FSC). ISBN 9790708146568.
The Orpheus myth is recorded in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books IX and X, and Virgil’s Georgics, Book IV. Badini’s libretto, however, is not simply a re-telling of the Classical myth but rather reads the myth through the prism of the European Enlightenment, hence the superposition of the original title of the opera. The chorus is employed throughout the opera as in Classical Greek tragedy.
