The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), in addition to a large output of church music and madrigals, wrote prolifically for the stage. His...

Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these...

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both...

videte martirem, SV 336 Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337 List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi Whenham, pp. 316–35 Whenham, p. 317 Whenham, pp. 318–19 Whenham...

L'Arianna (SV 291, Ariadne) is the lost second opera by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. One of the earliest operas in general, it was composed in 1607–1608...

composer is generally considered to be Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote the first prominent opera, L'Orfeo, followed by two others. Throughout the later 17th...

baroque opera L'Orfeo, composed by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger, was first performed in 1607. It is Monteverdi's first...

Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was...

is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first...

parts it was much more like a chamber opera than either the preceding intermedi or the operas of Claudio Monteverdi a few years later. It was written around...

Female Ingrates) is a semi-dramatic ballet by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi set to a libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini. It was first performed in...

lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich...

the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure...

spagnuola. Claudio Monteverdi settled in 1613 in Venice, where he was maestro di cappella of the St. Mark's Basilica. There he composed twelve operas, the principal...

attracted Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) who wrote his first opera, L'Orfeo (The Fable of Orpheus), in 1607 for the court of Mantua. Monteverdi insisted...

works including Handel's lost opera Nero, Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642/1643), Reinhard Keiser's opera Octavia (1705), Vittorio...

survives to this day. 1602 – Giulio Caccini – Euridice 1607 – Claudio Monteverdi – Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork...

unpublished madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. In the second part of this work, L'Ottuso Accademico, whose identity is unknown, defends Monteverdi and others "who...

Marguerite Leoš Janáček : The sly little vixen – Sly little vixen Claudio Monteverdi : L'incoronazione di Poppea - Drusilla Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The...

number of operas: Armida abbandonata (1627) by Claudio Monteverdi (lost) Armide (1686) by Jean-Baptiste Lully Rinaldo and Armida (1698) by John Dennis...

freedom. Dafne is scored for a much smaller ensemble than Claudio Monteverdi's slightly later operas, namely, a harpsichord, a lute, a viol, an archlute, and...

It became a theme for opera from the 16th century, with an Andromeda in Italy in 1587. This was followed by Claudio Monteverdi's Andromeda (1618–1620)...

masque features the music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger. June 4 – Claudio Monteverdi's latest work, Il ballo delle ingrate, is given its first performance...

Giulio Cesare Monteverdi (1573–1630/31) was an Italian composer and organist. He was the younger brother of Claudio Monteverdi. He entered the service...

compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large. Jacopo...

critically acclaimed recordings featuring works by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Guillaume de Machaut and Giovanni Gabrieli...

Wert, Benedetto Pallavicino and Claudio Monteverdi. Through Monteverdi, the court witnessed some of the first operas ever staged, including L'Orfeo (1607)...

Outstanding Achievement in Opera Award at the 2022 Critics' Circle Music Awards for Orpheus, Music by Claudio Monteverdi and Jasdeep Singh Degun (co-music...

Renaissance cityscape. It is the city where the composer Monteverdi premiered his 1607 opera L'Orfeo and to where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's...

poet and libretto writer. His libretti were put to music by composers like Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Manelli, and Francesco Sacrati...