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The Early Music Show

Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: The Birth of Opera

The Early Music Show: The Birth of Opera: Episode 2: The Birth of Opera: The Accademia degli Incogniti

The Birth of Opera: The Accademia degli Incogniti

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Birth of Opera: The Accademia degli Incogniti

The Birth of Opera

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Birth of Opera, The Birth of Opera: The Accademia degli Incogniti

Catherine Bott explores the reasons for Opera's popularity in 17th-century Venice.

Catherine Bott explores opera's success in Venice and the mysterious Accademia degli Incogniti's role. Opera arrived in 1637 and heralded a virtual avalanche of new productions.

Opera arrived in Venice with the opera Andromeda, brought to the city in 1637 and that began a virtual avalanche of productions there, so that just three years later Venice's third Opera house had opened and showed a total of five different new works during the 1640 carnival season. But the story of Opera's explosion in Venice is an intriguing one, with a plot which reads like a deft political thriller. Catherine Bott explores Opera's success in the watery city and the powerful role of the mysterious Accademia degli Incogniti.

Bibliography

Ellen Rosand - Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre
Muir - The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance
Glixon & Glixon - Inventing the Business of Opera.

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Catherine Bott explores the origins of opera, examining the genre from its earliest days

Catherine Bott explores the origins of opera, examining the genre from its earliest days in the courts of Florence and Rome

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