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SFOpera A Brief History of Opera ~ Enter Jacopo Peri 1561–1633 who composed Dafne 1597 which many consider to be the first opera From that beginning two types of opera began to emerge opera seria or stately formal and dignified pieces to befit the royalty that attended and sponsored them and opera buffa or comedies

A History of Opera Carolyn Abbate Roger Parker ~ Opera began in the seventeenth century in several Italian cities most notably Florence and Venice It quickly spread to Germany and Italy Great opera composers produced monumental works

opera History Facts Britannica ~ One of the most variable facets of opera during its long history has been the balance struck between music and poetry or text The collaborators of the first operas in the early 17th century believed they were creating a new genre in which music and poetry in order to serve the drama were fused into an inseparable whole a language that was in a class of its own—midway between speaking and singing

HISTORY OF OPERA ~ Orfeo is Monteverdis first attempt at opera The part of Orpheus is sung by a castrato starting an operatic tradition using castrati which will last for two centuries A successful blend of recitative songs and instrumental sequences makes Orfeo the earliest opera to hold a place nearly four centuries later in the repertory

A History of Opera The Last Four Hundred Years Carolyn ~ Abbate and Parkers A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years now in paperback in an updated second edition The best single volume ever written on the subject

Opera History The Opera 101 ~ The first musical theatre work that we might define as an opera today was Jacopo Peri’s Dafne composed in the late 1590s Unfortunately little of Peri’s score survives so Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo of 1607 takes the crown as the earliest work that you are able to hear

A Brief History of Opera Music Spectacle — Gentlemans ~ Opera was conceived by committee a sure recipe for disaster The Florentine Camerata a group of highly influential thinkers poets and musicians met regularly in the decades leading up to Peri’s premiere Their ideas primarily that of reviving what they considered Classical approaches to drama led to the idea of opera

A Short History of Opera Fourth Edition Donald Grout ~ A Short History of Opera is perhaps one of the best known and most widely circulated texts on the history of this art is a vitally important book and it is likely to be one of the first places students researchers and fans will consult