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Jacopo Peri

Jacopo Peri
Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer (d. 1633)

Jacopo Peri was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne, and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).

20 August 1561

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