Ottavio rinuccini biography

Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1563 – 28 March 1621) was an.
Ottavio Rinuccini (the first opera librettist, who established many of the conventions of later operatic verse), and Jacopo Peri.
Ottavio Rinuccini was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

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Ottavio Rinuccini

Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1563^[1] – 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.

He was born and died at Florence.

Works

Rinuccini wrote texts for some of the intermedi at the performance of La pellegrina at the wedding of Ferdinand I de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine in May 1589.

Other works include:

Notes

^Firenze, Registro dei battezzati al fonte di S. Giovanni tenuto dal preposto di S. Giovanni, Registro 14, Carta 76v.

References

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The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

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Rinuccini, Ottavio

Rinuccini, Ottavio , great Italian poet and librettist; b. Florence, Jan. 20, 1562; d. there, March 28, 1621. He was born into a family of the nobility and became a prominent courtier. He commenced writing verses for court entertainments about 1579, and was also active in the Accademia Fiorentina and the Accademia degli Alterati, taking the name “II Sonnacchioso” (“the somnolent one”). He collaborated with Bardi in preparing intermedi for the wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdi-nando I (1589). Corsi and Peri then set his pastoral Dafne to music, which work is generally recognized as the first opera in the monodie style (Florence, 1598). Rinuccini’s Euridice, with music by Peri, was performed in 1600, and another setting, by Caccini, in 1602. He also wrote the libretto of Monteverdi’s Arianna (1608). These texts were republ. by A. Solerti in vol. II of Gli albori del melodramma (Milan, 1905) and by A. Della Corte, Drammi per musica dal Rinuccini allo Zeno (Turin, 1958).

Bibliography

F. Meda, O. R. (Milan, 1894); A. Civita, O. R. ed il sorgere del m