The Birth of Opera: Why Venice?
Catherine Bott explores opera's origins in the courts of Florence and Rome, how it came to Venice during the 1637 carnival season and why it truly flourished there.
In the first of two programmes exploring the origins of Opera, Catherine Bott examines the genre from its earliest days in the courts of Florence and Rome. Although it began life in these courts, it was in Venice that Opera was truly born, and Catherine explores the circumstances which surrounded its arrival there during the city's Carnival season of 1637 and the reasons for its immediate success.
Bibliography
Ellen Rosand - Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre
Muir - The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance
Glixon & Glixon - Inventing the Business of Opera.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Pur ti miro (from l'Incoronazione di Poppea)
Performers: Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs (director), Suzie LeBlanc, Derek Lee Ragin
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 5452632.
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Anon.
Corteccia 鈥� le Syree from the Intermedi of 1539
Performers: Centre de Musique Ancienne di Genevra, Studio di Musica Rinascimentale di Palermo, Schola 鈥楯acopo da Bologna鈥�, Gabriel Garrido
- TACTUS.
- TC 53012001.
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Jacopo Peri
end of Intermedi V from 1589
Performers: Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
- EMI.
- CDC 7479982.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo 鈥� Act 2: Tu se' morta, mia vita, ed io respire?
Performers: Laurence Dale (Orfeo), Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMC 90155354.
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Orazio Vecchi
L'amfiparnaso 鈥� Act 1; scene 1 "Che volete void it鈥�"
Performers: Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominique Visse
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMC 901461.
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Stefano Landi
La Morte d'Orfeo 鈥� Act 5, scene 1
Performers: John Elwes (Orfeo), Harry Van Kamp (Caronte), Currende, Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs
- ACCENT.
- ACC874647D.
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Francesco Manelli
Ti lascio鈥�
Performers: Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs (director), Suzie LeBlanc, Derek Lee Ragin
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 5452632.
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Giovanni Felice Sances
Cantata: Altri le vie
Performer: Concerto Soave
- EMPREINTE DIGITALE.
- ED 13038.
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Benedetto Ferrari
Lassa, che veggio
Performer: Ensemble Incantato
- CPO.
- 999 7222.
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Francesco Cavalli
Gli amori 鈥� prologue
Performers: Orquesta Joven de la Sinfonica de Galicia, Alberto Zedda
- NAXOS.
- 8.66018788.
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- Sat 10 Apr 2010 13:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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