Dafne
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Dafne (, Italian for "Daphne") is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di Apollo col serpente Pitone" ("the battle between Apollo and Python"), and set to music by Luca Marenzio, survives complete. The opera is considered to be the first "modern music drama."
Key facts
- Opera.name
- Dafne
- Opera.image
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Apollo and Daphne.jpg
- Opera.image_upright
- 1.1
- Opera.caption
- Daphne Chased by Apollo, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1744
- Opera.librettist
- Ottavio Rinuccini
- Opera.language
- Italian
- Opera.based_on
- Daphne myth
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Wikidata facts
- Based on
- Daphne
- Composer
- Jacopo Corsi
- Librettist
- Ottavio Rinuccini
- Image
- Peri-Corsi La Dafne.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dafne (, Italian for "Daphne") is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di Apollo col serpente Pitone" ("the battle between Apollo and Python"), and set to music by Luca Marenzio, survives complete. The opera is considered to be the first "modern music drama."
The mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragments are by Jacopo Corsi. Dafne was first performed during Carnival of 1598 (1597 old style) at the Palazzo Corsi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dafne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.