Political Intrigues of the Court of Florence as a Prerequisite for Giulio Caccini’s Opera The Abduction of Cephalus

The beginnings of opera history are usually associated with Euridice by Ottavio Rinuccini and Jacopo Peri as the first staged and preserved example of the genre.Not many people know that Euridice was by no means the main event during the wedding celebrations in honour of Maria de’ Medici and King Henry IV of France in 1600, to which the opera was

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