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The history of Opera originated in Italy during the last years of the 16th century. The first ever opera was â??Dafneâ?? which was created by Jacopo Peri. with the meetings of the Florentine Camerata (apex)
The first documented opera performance in New Orleans was staged on May 22, 1796 at a small theatre on St. Peter Street. Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, New Orleans was "The Opera Capital of North America," especially after the opening of the French Opera House in 1859. Numerous operas by the great European master composers had their American premieres at the French Opera House or at one of the numerous other theatres around town.
Jacopo Peri, an Italian composer, is credited with having composed the first opera (Dafne) around 1597.Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 - 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600).Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays, intermedi and madrigals.In the 1590s, Peri became associated with Jacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in Florence. They felt contemporary art was inferior to classical Greek and Roman works, and decided to attempt to recreate Greek tragedy, as they understood it. Their work added to that of the Florentine Camerata of the previous decade, which produced the first experiments in monody, the solo song style over continuo bass which eventually developed into recitative and aria. Peri and Corsi brought in the poet Ottavio Rinuccini to write a text, and the result, Dafne, though nowadays thought to be a long way from anything the Greeks would have recognized, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera.Rinuccini and Peri next collaborated on Euridice. This was first performed on 6 October 1600, and, unlike Dafne, has survived to the present day (though it is hardly ever staged, and then only as an historical curio). The work made use of recitatives, a new development which went between the arias and choruses and served to move the action along.Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers, and also wrote a number of other pieces for various court entertainments. Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large.
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Found this in a Wikipedia article about opera:Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) and soon spread through the rest of Europe.As always, though, you have to verify the information on your own. Hope this helps!
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The earliest opera of which we are aware was written in 1600 for what politically important event?
the year 1996, if you mean the web-browser named Opera.Second replyMusical Opera was created in Italy in the late-16th century. The first opera is generally thought to be Dafne, by Jacopo Peri. The music for this opera has been lost. The earliest opera for which we have the music and which receives occasional performances is L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, first performed in Mantua, Italy, in 1607.
The first operas were written by Jacopo Peri. Dafne is his first opera of record, from 1597, and Euridice (1600) is the earliest one from which the music survives. There is no record of who the singers were in either performance.
The first opera is generally agreed to have been Dafne, by Jacopo Peri. The libretto is in Italian.
By general consent, the first opera was Daphne or Dafne, first performed in 1598, music by Jacopo Corsi (-1604) and Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621). If there were any earlier we have no record, and none of the score for Daphne remains.
Jacopo Peri was born on August 20, 1561.
Jacopo Peri was born on August 20, 1561.
Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence around 1597)
Jacopo Peri died on August 12, 1633 at the age of 71.
The first opera composed is usually accepted as 'Daphne' first performed in 1598 during Carnival at the home of Jacopo Corsi in Florence. The music was by Corsi and Jacopo Peri to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. It is recognized as such because it was the first of a series of similar pieces that established the form of early 17th century Italian opera. The score does not survive.