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When and where was Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo first performed?

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Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi — Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi, oil painting by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630; in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria.

Claudio Monteverdi’s first opera, La favola d’Orfeo, was performed at the court of Mantua during the Carnival of 1607.1