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was commissioned by the Mantua court secretary, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, probably to celebrate the ascension of Duke Vincenzo II. The work is the first known attempt at a comic opera, but Striggio did not like Strozzi's libretto and cancelled the commission in September 1627.
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for the Mantua Carnival of March 1618, set to a libretto by Marigliani. Due to Monteverdi's disinterest it took two years to complete and premiered during the 1620 Carnival season, 1–3 March. The music is lost, but the libretto, long believed lost, was rediscovered in 1984.
1047:, an anatopismo, was composed to a libretto by Strozzi for the wedding celebrations of Lorenzo Giustiniani and Giustiniana Mocenigo, and premiered at the Mocenigo Palace in Venice on 16 April 1630. Only a song for three voices, "Come dolce oggi l'auretta", survived. 874:, it was premiered at the Ducal Palace on 4 February 1607. The work is the earliest opera still frequently performed and recorded. The libretto is written with dramatic instinct, different from earlier experiments in the new genre. 950:. Monteverdi was given the libretto by Scipione Agnelli without an author's name, which he criticised in a December 1616 letter. He began the composition, until the commission was withdrawn in January 1617. 68:(1643). Seven other opera projects are known; four were completed and performed during Monteverdi's lifetime, while he abandoned another three at some point. The libretto has survived for some of these 1006:. Monteverdi completed the score, but the performance was canceled due to the duke's death at the end of December 1627. Only a song for three voices, "Come dolce oggi l'auretta", survives. 2209: 864: 1108: 733: 178: 1992: 1943: 200:, were never finished, so it is unknown how much music was completed, if any. For some of them, at least the libretto survived, by authors including 934: 482: 184: 1043: 630: 172: 2226: 2143: 1350: 1020: 596: 190: 2526: 961: 516: 166: 994: 562: 196: 2168: 947: 2191: 909: 104: 2302: 2531: 2015: 1966: 1903: 1879: 1857: 1833: 1809: 863:(story in music), to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival season in Mantua in 1607. Commissioned by the 2536: 1204:
The exact genre of this work is uncertain and referred to in a number of ways: an "opera", an "operatic composition", or a
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was not widely used until the late 17th century, so Monteverdi's musical stage works were known by various names such as
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is a dramma musicale set to a libretto by Busenello. It is the final opera of the trilogy written for the
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and first performed in the 1640–41 carnival season. While the libretto survives, the music is lost.
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The words were not written specifically for the opera as they were adapted from poems by Tasso.
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in 1637, Monteverdi composed a trilogy of operas for public theatre in Venice, beginning with
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was written to a libretto by Torquato Tasso, and intended for the wedding celebrations of
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were completed and performed during Monteverdi's lifetime. The other three lost operas,
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during Monteverdi's earlier career, first as courtly entertainment trying to revive
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season. It was one of the first operas based on historical events and people.
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Only a single song for three voices, "Come dolce oggi l'auretta", survives.
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Known as an "anatopismo", but the meaning of the term is unknown.
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Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi
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myth. It was premiered at the Ducal Palace on 28 May 1608.
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After the first public theatre opened in Venice, the
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A long, grey stone building with a line of arches at ground level, above which is a row of small windows interspersed with balconies. Above this row is a line of larger windows below a crenellated roof line.
Ducal Palace
Mantua
Claudio Monteverdi
opera
libretto
L'Orfeo
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
L'incoronazione di Poppea
lost operas
opera genre emerged
Greek theatre
Dafne
Jacopo Peri
Euridice
Gonzaga family
Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga
Alessandro Striggio the Younger
St Mark's Basilica
Venice
Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Giacomo Badoaro
Giovanni Francesco Busenello
lost
L'Arianna
Andromeda
Proserpina rapita
Le nozze d'Enea con Lavinia
Le nozze di Tetide
La finta pazza Licori

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