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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era
Jacopo PeriEuridice: An Opera in One Act, Five Scenes
Edited by Howard Mayer Brown
| B 36-37 | ISBN 0-89579-137-4 | (1981) xxxvii+211 pp. | $82.00 |
| ISBN 978-0-89579-137-5 (13-digit) |
Among the many splendid entertainments organized in Florence in 1600 to celebrate the marriage of Maria de' Medici to Henri IV of France, Peri's setting of Ottavio Rinuccini's elegant play Euridice attracted relatively little attention. Since that first performance, however, Euridice has enjoyed an important place in the history of music as the first extant opera. It is also a work worthy of revival in the modern theater.
See the article on Early Italian Opera in Embellishments 5.