Everything about Dafne totally explained
Dafne is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an
opera. 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. Drawing on a new development at the time, Peri established
recitatives, melodic speech set to music, as a central part of opera.
The story of
Apollo falling in love with the eponymous
nymph,
Daphne, Jacopo Peri wrote
Dafne for an elite circle of
humanists in
Florence, the
Florentine Camerata, between
1594 and
1597, with the support, and possibly the collaboration, of the composer and patron
Jacopo Corsi. It was probably first performed in either 1597 or
1598 at the Palazzo Corsi. An attempt to revive
Greek drama, according to modern scholarship, it was a long way off from what the
ancient Greeks would have recognized, 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, to be performed as part of
Marie de' Medici and
Henry IV's wedding celebrations in
1600.
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