What Was The First Baroque Opera?
What Was The First Baroque Opera? Dafne by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today. It was written around 1597, largely under the inspiration of an elite circle of literate Florentine humanists who gathered as the “Camerata de’ Bardi”. Who wrote the first grand baroque opera? Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) is generally