Biography Dafne
, 1744]]Dafne is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. JSTOR.org "Dafne", the First Opera. A Chronological Study ABC.net.au How the Quest Was Won NYTimes.com " TRAVEL ADVISORY; Opera's 400th Birthday Is Celebrated in Vienna" Composed by Jacopo Peri, with a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. Dafne is scored for a much smaller ensemble than Claudio Monteverdi's slightly later operas, namely, a harpsichord, a lute, a viol, an archlute, and a triple flute. NewAdvent.org Drawing on a new development at the time, Peri established recitatives, melodic speech set to music, as a central part of opera. Jacopo Peri - Dafne page
The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne, Jacopo Peri wrote Dafne for an elite circle of humanists in Florence, the Florentine Camerata, between 1594 and 1597, with the support of composer and patron Jacopo Corsi. Jacopo Peri - Dafne page It was probably first performed in either 1597 or 1598 at the Palazzo Corsi. NNDB's Jacopo Peri page An attempt to revive Greek drama, NewAdvent.org according to modern scholarship, it was a long way off from what the ancient Greeks would have recognized, Jacopo Peri - Dafne page but instead it spawned a whole new form that would last for the next 400 years.
Peri's work has been lost, despite its popularity and fame in Europe at the time of its publishing. Florence's ruling Medici family was sufficiently taken with Dafne to allow Peri's next work, Euridice, to be performed as part of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV's wedding celebrations in 1600. News.com.au MusicWithEase.com "Opera Before Gluck
The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne, Jacopo Peri wrote Dafne for an elite circle of humanists in Florence, the Florentine Camerata, between 1594 and 1597, with the support of composer and patron Jacopo Corsi. Jacopo Peri - Dafne page It was probably first performed in either 1597 or 1598 at the Palazzo Corsi. NNDB's Jacopo Peri page An attempt to revive Greek drama, NewAdvent.org according to modern scholarship, it was a long way off from what the ancient Greeks would have recognized, Jacopo Peri - Dafne page but instead it spawned a whole new form that would last for the next 400 years.
Peri's work has been lost, despite its popularity and fame in Europe at the time of its publishing. Florence's ruling Medici family was sufficiently taken with Dafne to allow Peri's next work, Euridice, to be performed as part of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV's wedding celebrations in 1600. News.com.au MusicWithEase.com "Opera Before Gluck
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