Dafne 655883 216258396 2008-05-31T21:04:15Z Asphatasawhale 6870464 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/24.136.228.107|24.136.228.107]] to last version by Iridescent [[Image:Daphne_chased_by_Apollo.jpg|right|thumb|Daphne chased by Apollo, by [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]], [[1744]]]] '''''Dafne''''' is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an [[opera]].<ref name="js">[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1612-0124(191310%2F12)15%3A1%3C102%3A%22TFOAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 JSTOR.org "Dafne", the First Opera. A Chronological Study]</ref><ref name="bc">[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/quest/txt/s1487531.htm ABC.net.au How the Quest Was Won]</ref><ref name="ny">[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9801E4D61731F930A35756C0A96E958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fO%2fOpera NYTimes.com " TRAVEL ADVISORY; Opera's 400th Birthday Is Celebrated in Vienna" ]</ref> Composed by [[Jacopo Peri]], with a [[libretto]] by [[Ottavio Rinuccini]]. ''Dafne'' is scored for a much smaller ensemble than [[Claudio Monteverdi]]'s slightly later operas, namely, a [[harpsichord]], a [[lute]], a [[viol]], an [[archlute]], and a triple flute.<ref name="na">[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10657a.htm NewAdvent.org]</ref> Drawing on a new development at the time, Peri established [[recitative|recitatives]], melodic speech set to music, as a central part of opera.<ref name="at">[http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:cejxVYY_gLYJ:at.or.at/hans/misc/itp/newmediahistory/dafne.xhtml&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=41 Jacopo Peri - Dafne page]</ref> The story of [[Apollo]] falling in love with the eponymous [[nymph]], [[Daphne]], Jacopo Peri wrote ''Dafne'' for an elite circle of [[Renaissance humanism|humanists]] in [[Florence]], the [[Florentine Camerata]], between [[1594]] and [[1597]], with the support, and possibly the collaboration, of the composer and patron [[Jacopo Corsi]].<ref name="at">[http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:cejxVYY_gLYJ:at.or.at/hans/misc/itp/newmediahistory/dafne.xhtml&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=41 Jacopo Peri - Dafne page]</ref><ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/830682 JSTOR] ''Peri and Corsi's "Dafne": Some New Discoveries and Observations'', William V. Porter; Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer, 1965), pp. 170-196</ref> It was probably first performed in either 1597 or [[1598]] at the Palazzo Corsi.<ref name="nn">[http://www.nndb.com/people/694/000097403/ NNDB's Jacopo Peri page]</ref> An attempt to revive [[Greek drama]],<ref name="na">[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10657a.htm NewAdvent.org]</ref> according to modern scholarship, it was a long way off from what the [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greeks]] would have recognized,<ref name="at">[http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:cejxVYY_gLYJ:at.or.at/hans/misc/itp/newmediahistory/dafne.xhtml&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=41 Jacopo Peri - Dafne page]</ref> but instead it spawned a whole new form that would last for the next 400 years. Most of Peri's music has been lost, despite its popularity and fame in [[Europe]] at the time of its publishing, but the 455 line verse libretto was published and survives. Florence's ruling [[Medici family]] was sufficiently taken with ''Dafne'' to allow Peri's next work, [[Euridice (opera)|Euridice]], to be performed as part of [[Marie de' Medici]] and [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]]'s wedding celebrations in [[1600]].<ref name="au">[http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,20827633-5010927,00.html News.com.au]</ref><ref name="at">[http://www.musicwithease.com/opera-before-gluck.html MusicWithEase.com "Opera Before Gluck]</ref> ==References== <div class="references-small"> <references/> </div> ==External Links== *[http://www.pwcenter.org/files/works/StarryMessenger-FLEMING.pdf ''The Starry Messenger'' by Justin Fleming] A play about the first production of ''Dafne'' [[Category:Operas by Jacopo Peri]] [[Category:Pastoral operas]] [[Category:Italian-language operas]] [[Category:Operas]] [[Category:1590s operas]] [[Category:European court festivities]] [[fi:Dafne (Perin ooppera)]]