Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movements: E così, a poco a poco (wds. Guarini) David Bates, Conductor Claudio Monteverdi, Composer (La) Nuova Musica (Le) nuove musiche, Movements: ...
Caccini: La Liberazione di Ruggiero CD review – first opera by a woman stands firmly on its own feet
Francesca Caccini (1587-c1645) was in at the very beginnings of opera. She was part of a musical family who regularly played and sang at the Medici court in Florence, including performances of the ...
This weekend, the Boston Early Music Festival presents Francesca Caccini’s “La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina,” the latest in its annual series of chamber operas. First performed in 1625, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the worlds of opera and classical music, women are ever more prominent and distinguished — as composers, ...
(Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house.) Those opera adversaries who slam the music for its elitist and Eurocentric associations are ...
Francesca Caccini—a virtuoso singer, court composer, and music teacher in the employ of the Medicis—was caught up in the invention of opera as an art form in the early seventeenth century. She likely ...
The birth of opera can be traced back to a few significant landmark events in Florence, such as Giulio Caccini’s Euridice. Ottavio Rinuccini’s libretto had already been set to music by Jacopo Peri for ...
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