1562–1621, Italian Ottavio Rinuccini, a member of the Bardi Camerata, wrote his first libretti for sophisticated Florentine entertainments. In 1598, Rinuccini produced the first opera libretto, Peri’s Dafne (1598). A musical setting of Dafne composed by Heinrich Schütz in 1627 may have been the first German opera. Rinuccini’s libretto Euridice was set to music by both ...
Premiered: 1602, Florence Libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, after Ovid Prologue The figure of Tragedy introduces the opera, explaining that to make the story suitable for marriage celebrations, the original ending has been altered. Act I The act opens in an Arcadian village, with Euridice preparing for her marriage to Orfeo, along with nymphs and shepherds ...
planned but never took place. Orfeo was published in 1609, with a dedication to the Duke. Composed: 1606 Premiered: 1607, Mantua Libretto by Alessandro Striggio, after Ottavio Rinuccini and Ovid Prologue The figure of Music welcomes the audience and flatters the patrons (the Gonzaga family), telling of the magic and power of music and asking for silence during ...
but born at the very moment. In sum … she transforms herself completely into the person she represents.’ Introduction | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera Personalities | Ottavio Rinuccini | Early & Middle Baroque | Opera ...
1551–1618, Italian At age 13, Giulio Caccini arrived at the court of the de’ Medici family in Florence and very quickly proved himself immensely gifted in several musical skills – as singer, composer, teacher, lutenist and harpist. In 1598, Caccini helped Peri compose Dafne. In 1600, he became superintendent of musicians and actors at ...
member of Bardi’s famous circle of Camerata in Florence, but by 1592 was enjoying the patronage of the amateur composer Corsi. One of the poets of Corsi’s household was Rinuccini, whose pastoral poem Dafne was partly set to music by Corsi and then completed by Peri. It was first played at Corsi’s palace in 1598 and repeated at court ...
history of opera. The Camerata’s actual history is complex, but its contribution to opera is unequivocal. In 1598 the ‘first opera’, Dafne, with a libretto by member Ottavio Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri (1561–1633) was performed at the home of the group’s then-patron, Jacopo Corsi (d. 1604). Although only a couple of choruses survive from this experiment ...
sets. The intermedi were devised by Giovanni de’ Bardi (1534–1612) on the theme of the power of music in the ancient world, with texts written by Bardi, Ottavio Rinuccini (1562–1621) and Laura Guidiccioni (fl. 1550). The music was composed largely by Cristofano Malvezzi (1547–99) and Luca Marenzio (1550–99), with contributions by others, including Peri, Caccini and Bardi. ...
European culture lay in ruins after the end of World War II. There were many who, in company with the philosopher Theodor Adorno, felt that Nazi atrocities such as Auschwitz rendered art impossible, at least temporarily. Others, though, felt that humanity could only establish itself anew by rediscovering the potency of art, including opera. On ...
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