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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.
Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1630) . Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi [n 1] (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.
While Monteverdi's own impressions of the work are unknown, the duke realised the potential of this new art form and sought to gain prestige from the patronage of it. [4] Therefore, he commissioned Monteverdi in late 1606 for a work which is now considered as the "birth of Western Opera", [5] L'Orfeo, on a libretto by Alessandro Striggio the ...
Claudio Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi, 1640. 1607 L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi). Widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork. [2] 1640 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi). Monteverdi's first opera for Venice, based on Homer's Odyssey, displays the composer's mastery of portrayal of genuine individuals as opposed to stereotypes. [3]
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.
Title [1] Voices/instrumentation [1] Publication history [1] Other information Refs 1582: Sacred: 207–229: Sacrae cantiunculae, liber primus (23 pieces, details table A below) 3 voices S, A and T: Monteverdi, Venice 1582: 1583: Sacred: 179–189: Madrigali spirituali (11 pieces, details table B below) 4 voices: Monteverdi, Brescia 1583: Only ...
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The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. ... L'Orfeo, Monteverdi, 1607; Orfeo ...