Previous posts for August 20th are here: Jacopo Peri (2019), (2020), Josef Strauss; Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (2021), Jacopo Peri (2022), and Jacopo Peri (2023)
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Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) wrote the earliest surviving opera.
Nice Try 1
As an attempt to revive Greek drama, Dafne was a long way off from what the ancient Greeks would have recognized as dramatic art. -- Wikipedia, s.v. “Dafne”
Compared to the Roman or Greek
The drama in Florence was weak,
So Jacopo Peri
Decided to jerry-
Rig something he thought was Antique.
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Dafne is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. – Wikipedia, s.v. “Dafne”
Jacopo Peri whose Dafne began
The craze for the opera stage,
Conceived of the show on the dubious plan
Of reviving the Classical Age.
For though he essayed to be Greek or be Roman,
While reviving the glories of yore,
Alas, Signor Peri was hardly a showman
And the result was an evening-long bore.
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