August 20 - Jacopo Peri (The Musical Birthday Series)

Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) wrote the earliest surviving opera. 

Peri-phrasis

The Court was wary

When Jacopo Peri

  Wrote dramas in recitative.

He added very

Light and airy

   Songs as a reprieve.

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