The figure of Music appears in the prologue to introduce the work.
The figure of Music appears in the prologue to introduce the work. At the beginning of Act 5, the main character takes comfort from Echo in the fields of Thrace after Sylvia brings bad news. The "possente spirto" aria is an attempt to sway the will of Charon, and Apollo comes down from heaven at the end of Act 5 to take the title character away so that he can look upon his deceased forever in the stars. It has a libretto by Alessandro Striggio based on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Georgics. FTP, name this 1607 pioneering opera about the love of the titular musician for Eurydice, a work by Monteverdi.
The figure of Music appears in the prologue to introduce the work.
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