17th century

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Opera · Baroque music

L'Orfeo

Claudio Monteverdi and Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1607

The first performance was in a room at the Mantuan court for a few dozen listeners, and the printed score names every instrument required.

★ 7.3

Renaissance music

Vespro della Beate Vergine

Claudio Monteverdi and Paul McCreesh

1610

Monteverdi sent it to the Pope hoping for a better job, and it mixes plainchant with writing that would have sounded like theater inside a church.

★ 3.9