Opera is a fairly recent art form: the first work generally accounted as an opera dates from 1597 and is largely lost, though the libretto survives. Eleven years later, that same text – La Dafne – was ...

Opera is a fairly recent art form: the first work generally accounted as an opera dates from 1597 and is largely lost, though the libretto survives. Eleven years later, that same text – La Dafne – was ...