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Donald Macleod explores Monteverdi鈥檚 role in the birth of opera.

Claudio Monteverdi is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the development of Western music. As a composer of both secular and sacred music, over the course of his career he worked for court, church and was one of the key figures in the development of opera. During this week of programmes, Donald Macleod tracks Monteverdi鈥檚 career across three cities, from promising child prodigy, through poverty and plague, to his final years in the priesthood, with huge artistic successes along the way.

In Wednesday鈥檚 programme, Donald see Monteverdi make ground-breaking steps in the evolution of a new musical form: opera. Meanwhile, the composer's frustrations with the Gonzaga court in Mantua reach breaking point.

Pur ti miro from L鈥檌ncoronazione di Poppea, SV308 Act 3
Philippe Jaroussky (Nerone), counter-tenor
Nuria Rial (Poppea), soprano
尝鈥橝谤辫别驳驳颈补迟补
Christina Pluhar (director)

Orfeo - Act 5 : Final ritornello and Moresca
European Voices
Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e
Emmanuelle Ha茂m, director

Orfeo 鈥� Act 3 (excerpt)
Furio Zanasi (Orfeo), tenor
Sara Mingardo (Speranza), contralto
Sergio Foresti (Caronte), bass
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor

Lamento d鈥橝rianna
Montserrat Figueras (Arianna), soprano
Hesperion XX
Jordi Savall, conductor

Missa da capella a sei voci 鈥淚n illo tempore鈥� 鈥� Kyrie & Gloria
Ensemble Vocal Europeen de la Chapelle Royale
Philippe Herreweghe, director

Produced by Sam Phillips