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Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7] 1611: Sacred: 2 motets: 2–5 voices: Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7] 1614: Madrigal/song: 107–116: Il sesto libro de madrigali (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 10 pieces, details table L below) 5–7 voices, basso continuo: Monteverdi, Venice 1614, repub. 1615, 1620, 1639
There is no clear record of Monteverdi's early musical training, or evidence that (as is sometimes claimed) he was a member of the Cathedral choir or studied at Cremona University. Monteverdi's first published work, a set of motets, Sacrae cantiunculae (Sacred Songs) for three voices, was issued in Venice in 1582, when he was only fifteen years ...
L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
The opera genre emerged during Monteverdi's earlier career, first as courtly entertainment trying to revive Greek theatre. [1] The first known work to be regarded as an opera in the modern sense is Dafne (1598) by Jacopo Peri, and his Euridice (1600) is the earliest surviving one. [2]
Verdi's French grand opera, after Schiller, is now one of his most highly regarded works. [114] 1867 La jolie fille de Perth (Bizet). Bizet turned to a novel by Sir Walter Scott for this opéra comique. [115] 1867 Roméo et Juliette (Gounod). Gounod's version of Shakespeare's tragedy is his second most famous work. [116] 1868 Dalibor (Smetana ...
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Giovanni Francesco Busenello, librettist of L'incoronazione di Poppea. The main sources for the story told in Busenello's libretto are the Annals of Tacitus; book 6 of Suetonius's history The Twelve Caesars; books 61–62 of Dio Cassius's Roman History; and an anonymous play Octavia (once attributed to the real life Seneca), from which the opera's fictional nurse characters were derived.
In Claudio Monteverdi's 1607 opera L'Orfeo, the title character is bombarded with the famous line Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate [65] as he attempts to enter the underworld. Gaetano Donizetti's 1837 opera Pia de' Tolomei centers around the life of the titular Pia de' Tolomei as mentioned in Purgatorio Canto XIII. [66]