Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and the Accademia degli Invaghiti

ISBN: 9780367465964 (0367465965)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 242
Date Published: 3rd Sep 2021
Series: Routledge Research in Music

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Introduction: "The Invaghiti Orfeo"
Chapter 1: The World of the Italian Academies
Chapter 2: The Invaghiti's Literary Theater
Chapter 3: Musical Virtuosity and the Orphic Ideal
Chapter 4: Oratory and Noble Virtu
Chapter 5: Patriarchal Guidance, Gendered Educational Privilege
Chapter 6: The Mystical Architecture of Orfeo
Envoi: Orpheus's Exit from the Academy

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This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.

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