Pen's 'Fund/ee"
This month sees the 400th anniversary of Jacopo Peri 's Fur/d/ce, the earnest opera to survive comptete. which was first performed on 6 October 1600. Lucie
Skeaping considers some of the events that brought this new musical genre into being. The programme includes music by Jacopo Peri , Vincenzo Galilei, Giulio
Caccini as well as extracts from Giovanni de Bardi's great Intermedio of 1589. Producer Chris Wines.