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Baroque music; List of classical music composers by era; List of composers by name; Women in Music; There is considerable overlap near the beginning and end of this era. See lists of composers for the previous and following eras: List of Renaissance composers; List of Classical era composers
The first opera, performed in Florence (music now lost). [243] 1600 Euridice (Peri). The earliest opera whose music survives. [243] 1625 La liberazione di Ruggiero (Francesca Caccini). First opera by a woman. [244] 1627 Dafne (Heinrich Schütz). First German opera. Music now lost. [245] 1660 La púrpura de la rosa (Juan Hidalgo). First Spanish ...
The middle Baroque period in Italy is defined by the emergence of the vocal styles of cantata, oratorio, and opera during the 1630s, and a new concept of melody and harmony that elevated the status of the music to one of equality with the words, which formerly had been regarded as pre-eminent. The florid, coloratura monody of the early Baroque ...
This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists Consulted" section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri , who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams , one of the leading figures in the ...
2.2 Operas. 2.3 Sacred music. ... The following is a list of compositions by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi ... music completely lost:
Monteverdi composed L'Orfeo, a favola in musica (story in music), to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival season in Mantua in 1607. Commissioned by the Accademia degli Invaghiti , it was premiered at the Ducal Palace on 4 February 1607. [22] The work is the earliest opera still frequently performed and recorded. [23]
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.