Question: What Monteverdi ballet was first performed in Lombardy, Italy? 
Context: Il ballo delle ingrate ("The Ballet of the Ungrateful Ladies") is a semi-dramatic ballet by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi set to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini.  It was first performed in Mantua on Wednesday, 4 June 1608 as part of the wedding celebrations for Francesco Gonzaga (the son of Monteverdri's patron Duke Vincenzo of Mantua) and Margaret of Savoy.  Both Vincenzo and Francesco Gonzaga took part in the dancing.  Monteverdi also composed the opera "L'Arianna" (to another libretto by Rinuccini) and the music for the prologue to Guarini's play "L'idropica" for the occasion. The Ballet de la Merlaison is a ballet de cour first performed in 1635 at the Château de Chantilly, during the reign of Louis XIII.  It is the most popular ballet performed during the reign of Louis XIII, which marked an important development of the Ballet de cour. Agon (1957) is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine.  Composition began in December 1953 but was interrupted the next year; work was resumed in 1956 and concluded on April 27, 1957; the music was first performed on June 17, 1957, in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft, while the first stage performance was given by the New York City Ballet on December 1, 1957, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York .  The composition's long gestation period covers an interesting juncture in Stravinsky's composing career, in which he moved from a diatonic musical language to one based on twelve-tone technique; the music of the ballet thus demonstrates a unique symbiosis of musical idioms.  The ballet has no story, but consists of a series of dance movements in which various groups of dancers interact in pairs, trios, quartets, etc.  A number of the movements are based on 17th-century French court dances – saraband, galliard and bransle.  It was danced as part of City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky Centennial Celebration. These lists show the audio and visual recordings of the opera "L'Orfeo" by Claudio Monteverdi.  The opera was first performed in Mantua in 1607, at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga, and is one of the earliest of all operas.  The first recording of "L'Orfeo" was issued in 1939, a freely adapted version of Monteverdi's music edited by Giacomo Benvenuti, given by the orchestra of La Scala Milan conducted by Ferrucio Calusio.  In 1949 the Berlin Radio Orchestra under Helmut Koch recorded the complete opera, on long-playing records (LPs).  The advent of LP recordings was, as Harold Schonberg later wrote, an important factor in the postwar revival of interest in Renaissance and Baroque music, and from the mid-1950s recordings of "L'Orfeo" have been issued on many labels.  Koch's landmark version was reissued in 1962, when it was compared unfavourably with others that had by then been issued.  The 1969 recording by Nicholas Harnoncourt and the Vienna Concentus Musicus, using Harnoncourt's edition based on period instruments, was praised for "making Monteverdi's music sound something like the way he imagined".  In 1981 Siegfried Heinrich, with the Early Music Studio of the Hesse Chamber Orchestra, recorded a version which re-created the original Striggio libretto ending, adding music from Monteverdi's 1616 ballet "Tirsi e Clori" for the Bacchante scenes.  Among more recent recordings, that of Emmanuelle Haïm has been praised for its dramatic effect.  The 21st century has seen the issue of an increasing number of recordings on DVD. Sabrina Matthews (born 1977) is a Canadian ballet choreographer.  She has created pieces for some of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world, including multiple pieces for the renowned Stuttgart Ballet.  This in-demand choreographer has premiered works on three continents in over a dozen cities from Beijing, to New York, to London.  She was recognized as one of Canada's Amazing Women to Watch, alongside Oscar nominees.  Recently, Sabrina Matthews has received commissions from Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Boston Ballet, England's Royal Academy of Dance's Genee International Ballet Competition, and the National Ballet of Canada.  Over the past few years, her works have been performed by major international ballet companies in Canada, the United States, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Jazz Calendar is a ballet created in 1968 by Frederick Ashton to the music of Richard Rodney Bennett.  The ballet was first performed on 9 January 1968 by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with designs by Derek Jarman.  The work was performed over 50 times up to 1979 by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but is not part of the current repertoire.  It was also produced in October 1990 at the Birmingham Hippodrome by Birmingham Royal Ballet. Mantua (Italian: "Mantova" ] ; Emilian and Latin: "Mantua") is a city and commune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries.  Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence.  An early example of Catherine's development of ballet is through 'Le Paradis d' Amour', a piece of work presented at her daughter's wedding, Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre.  Aristocratic money was responsible for the initial stages of development in 'court ballet', as it was royal money that dictated the ideas, literature and music used in ballets that were created to primarily entertain the aristocrats of the time.  The first formal 'court ballet' ever recognized was staged in 1573, 'Ballet des Polonais'.  In true form of royal entertainment, 'Ballet des Polonais' was commissioned by Catherine de' Medici to honor the Polish ambassadors who were visiting Paris upon the accession of Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland.  In 1581, Catherine de' Medici commissioned another court ballet, "Ballet Comique de la Reine", however it was her compatriot, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, who organized the ballet.  Catherine de' Medici and Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx were responsible for presenting the first court ballet ever to apply the principles of Baif's Academie, by integrating poetry, dance, music and set design to convey a unified dramatic storyline.  Moreover, the early organization and development of 'court ballet' was funded by, influenced by and produced by the aristocrats of the time, fulfilling both their personal entertainment and political propaganda needs. Checkmate is a one act ballet created by the choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss.  The idea for the ballet was proposed by Bliss, and subsequently produced by de Valois for the Vic-Wells Ballet.  It was first performed on 15 June 1937 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris.  "Checkmate" is widely regarded as de Valois' signature ballet and a cornerstone of the British ballet repertoire, being performed regularly by the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Alessandro Striggio the Younger (ca. 1573 – 8 June 1630) was an Italian librettist, the son of the composer Alessandro Striggio.  The younger Striggio is most famous for his association with the composer Claudio Monteverdi.  He wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's first opera "Orfeo" (1607), a landmark in the history of the genre, as well as the "ballo" (sung ballet) "Tirsi e Clori".  Striggio worked at the court of Mantua and died of the plague while on a diplomatic mission to Venice.
Answer: Il ballo delle ingrate