Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1562 – 28 March 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.
Commemorative plaque for Ottavio Rinuccini on the Via de' Rustici, Florence
OttavioRinuccini (20 January 1562 – 28 March 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of...
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Rinuccini is a surname, and may refer to: Giovanni Battista Rinuccini (1592–1653), an Italian archbishop. OttavioRinuccini (1562–1621), an Italian poet...
by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by OttavioRinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di...
Giulio Caccini with librettist OttavioRinuccini (1600) Euridice, an opera by Giulio Caccini with librettist OttavioRinuccini (1602) L'Orfeo, the first opera...
score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by OttavioRinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne...
Jacopo Corsi to a libretto by OttavioRinuccini La Dafne (1608), opera by Marco da Gagliano to a libretto OttavioRinuccini Die Dafne (1627), lost opera...
libretto was by OttavioRinuccini, who had written some of the 1587 Medici intermedi, in which Peri had also been involved; Rinuccini appears to have...
such as Jacopo Peri, working in conjunction with poet OttavioRinuccini. In 1598, Peri and Rinuccini produced Dafne, an entire drama sung in monodic style:...
a sister of Cardinal Ottavio Bandini, who was bishop of Ostia and Velletri and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Rinuccini was educated by the Jesuits...
1608 by the Italian composer Marco da Gagliano from a libretto by OttavioRinuccini. It is described as a favola in musica (fable set to music) composed...
1600. This was followed in 1608 by the opera L'Arianna (libretto by OttavioRinuccini), intended for the celebration of the marriage of Francesco to Margherita...
survived, by authors including Scipione Agnelli, Ercole Marigliani, OttavioRinuccini, Giulio Strozzi and Torquato Tasso. The term opera was not widely...
the composer Jacopo Peri, created Dafne (1597), with libretto by OttavioRinuccini, based on the myth of Apollo and Dafne, with a prologue and six scenes;...
Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601) January 20 – OttavioRinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621) January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English...
Giovanni Battista Guarini, OttavioRinuccini, Alessandro Striggio, and Torquato Tasso; and entries on the operas Dafne by Rinuccini, Dafne by Gagliano, Euridice...
performers, in the 1589 Medici intermezzi, and the librettist for both, OttavioRinuccini, seems to have recycled in Dafne some of the material from the 1589...
brought in the poet OttavioRinuccini to write a text, and the result, Dafne, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera. Rinuccini and Peri next collaborated...
composer and singer. He is "often known as the 'inventor' of opera." OttavioRinuccini (1562–1621), was the first opera librettist, having produced the texts...
January 20 Maria of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noblewoman (d. 1605) OttavioRinuccini, Italian composer (d. 1621) February 15 Rascas de Bagarris, French...
(see also melodramma). Opera, the earliest (1597) being written by OttavioRinuccini, put to music by Jacopo Peri and titled 'Dafne' (also see Neapolitan...
the heroic poems of his time in his mock epic Morgante (1478, 1483) OttavioRinuccini (1562–1621), poet, courtier and opera librettist Coluccio Salutati...
Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1554) March 28 – OttavioRinuccini, Italian composer (b. 1562) March 31 – King Philip III of Spain, (Philip...
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