Bringing Orfeo to life
Mireille Asselin and Aaron Sheehan - photo: Kathy WittmanUnlike many art forms, opera kicked off with a masterpiece - Monteverdi's Orfeo still ranks as one of the most gorgeous ever written. Which makes it all the stranger that the work was rarely performed for nearly four hundred years; after its initial bows (around 1607) in the Duke of Mantua's living room, it was largely lost to the repertoire before early …