OTTAVIO RINUCCINI

'Ottavio Rinuccini' (January 20, 1562 – March 28, 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, ''Dafne'', in 1597, he became the first opera librettist.

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★ Rinuccini wrote texts for some of the intermedi at the performance of La pellegrina at the wedding of Ferdinand I de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine in May of 1589

★ Libretto for Jacopo Peri's opera ''Dafne'', first performed early in 1598

★ The pastorale, ''Euridice'', used as the libretto for Peri's opera, ''Euridice'', and Giulio Caccini's opera of the same name.

★ Libretto for Claudio Monteverdi's ''L'Arianna'', first performed in 1608

References

★ A Short History of Opera, , Donald Jay, Grout, Columbia University Press, 1988,

★ Monteverdi (Music in Transition), , Silke, Leopold, Clarendon Press, 1991,