MONTEVERDI: L’Adone

MONTEVERDI: L’Adone [21 December]. Venice, SS.G. e P. Text by P. Vendramin (Tragedia musicale), founded on the poem by G. B. Marini. Prologue and 5 acts. The first opera Monteverdi—then aged 72—wrote for a public theatre. Very successful, given during the whole Carnival of 1640 and repeated in the autumn of that year. The music is lost. The music has been attributed to Monteverdi by all older and most modern historians, from Bonlini (1730) to Prunières (1926) and Malipiero (1929). Yet it should…