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La morte d'Orfeo (
The Death of Orpheus) is an
opera in five acts by the Italian composer
Stefano Landi. Dedicated to Alessandro Mattei,
familiaris of Pope
Paul V, it may have been first performed in Rome in 1619.
[1] The work is styled a
tragicomedia pastorale (pastoral tragicomedy). The
libretto, which may be by the composer himself, is in part inspired by
La favola d'Orfeo (1484) by
Angelo Poliziano. Unlike
Monteverdi's
L'Orfeo and the earliest Florentine operas on the subject (
Euridice by Peri and Caccini), Landi's opera contains comic elements and deals with a different episode from the life of the mythical singer.