Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne

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Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (The Loves of Apollo and Daphne) is an opera by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli. It was Cavalli's second operatic work and was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice during the Carnival season of 1640. The libretto is by Giovanni Francesco Busenello and is based on the story of the god Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne Orquestra Joven de la ... more
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Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Giovanni Francesco Busenello (b Venice, 24 Sept 1598; d Legnaro, nr Padua, 27 Oct 1659) was an Italian lawyer, librettist and poet of the 17th century. Born to a high-class Venetian family, it is thought that he studied at the University of Padua, where according to himself he was taught by Paolo...

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron, a Venetian nobleman. Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy. He became a...
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Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world. Completed in 8 AD, it has remained one of the most popular works of mythology, being the Classical work best known to medieval writers and thus having a great deal of...
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