reading homework 1-page essay on music and opera

1)  Read article from Perceptible processes: Minimalism & the Baroque

Steve Reich "Music as a Gradual process"

2)  Watch: Monteverdi's Orfeo opera (it's 2 hours so please do jump but get at least a good hour of it to get the story and different stage settings etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mD16EVxNOM

3) Critique:

i)  Who is Orfeo? 

ii) based on the article and having watched Glass's Einstein on the Beach  (Minimalism) and Monteverdi's Orfeo (early Baroque) - did you find any similarities, differences, comments etc.