Tancredi e Clorinda
IL COMBATIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA: Claudio Monteverdi, 1624. The crusader, Tancredi, challenges and kills a soldier that he fails to recognise as his lover, Clorinda. Original commission from Birmingham Opera Company. This short dramatic cantata, from a poem by Tasso, is for a narrator and two characters although it can be performed as a monologue.