Sartorio: L’Orfeo

Viennese conductor René Clemencic sadly passed away on March 8th. He was a pioneering figure of music on period instruments, whose commitment through a 50-year recording career contributed to the rediscovery of early music by a wide audience. During the 1979 Venezia Biennale, he re-created Sartorio’s opera L’Orfeo for the first time since the 17th-century, surrounded by a wonderful cast of singers, including Henri Ledroit and a very young Gérard Lesne!