http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/158311.php Yes, I am now going to write about a 400 year old opera, indeed the very first opera - L'Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi. It was originally performed in 1607 at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. This DVD is of... en-us http://theglitteringeye.com/?p=1768 The part of Orfeo in Gluck’s 18th century rendering of the Greek myth of Orpheus’s journey through Hades to retrieve his deceased wife, Euridice, from the clutches of death, was originally written for castrato. The fashion for castrato sin...