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feb 14, 1590 - Jacopo Peri’s Dafne

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The first musical theatre work that we might define as an opera today was Jacopo Peri’s Dafne, composed in the late 1590s. Unfortunately little of Peri’s score survives so Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo of 1607 takes the crown as the earliest work that you are able to hear.

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feb 14, 1590
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~ 436 years ago