If there were, no record remains. Peri is generally credited with inventing the form with La Dafne.
The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne.
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.
According to Wikipedia, "Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence about 1597) and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Schütz in Germany, Lully in France, and Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century."
The earliest opera on record is Dafne by Jacopo Peri, an Italian composer. It is thought to have been written around 1597. Earlier Greek dramas were thought to have choruses that sung parts of the play, but those were not written as musical performances, hence the credit goes to the Italians.
The standard textbook answer regarding the first opera is 'Daphne' or 'Dafne' first performed in 1598 during Carnival at the home of Jacopo Corsi in Florence. The music was by 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. The link below will give a history of opera.
Dafne
The first opera is generally agreed to have been Dafne, by Jacopo Peri. The libretto is in Italian.
The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne.
Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence around 1597)
Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence around 1597) and soon spread through the rest of Europe.
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.
Dafne was created in 1597.
Dafne Molina's birth name is Dafne Molina Lona.
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.
Dafne Molina is 180 cm.
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.
In 1597, with the production of Jacopo Peri's Dafne. Over the next century, it expanded throughout Europe, but it's origins are recognized as Italian.