Euridice (Peri)

Euridice, etiam Erudice et Eurydice, est opera Iacobi Peri, cum musica ab Iulio Caccini addita.^[1] Libellus, ab Octavio Rinuccini Italiane compositus, de libris decimo et undecimo Metamorphoseon Ovidii deducitur,^[2] qui fabulam enarrant Orphei musici Eurydicesque uxoris.

Opera in Palatio Pitti Florentiae die 6 Octobris 1600 prima monstrata est, Peri ipso personam titularem canente.

Dramatis personae

Persona	Genus vocis
La Tragedia	supranus
Euridice	supranus
Orfeo	tenor
Aminta, pastor	tenor
Arcetro, pastor	contraltus
Tirsi, pastor	tenor
Caronte	bassus
Dafne	supranus
Plutone	bassus
Proserpina	supranus
Radamanto	tenor
Venere	supranus
Nymphae et pastores, umbrae et deitates inferorum

Prologus.

↑ Qui suam Euridice quidem conficiebat dum musicam operae Perianae suppeditabat; partituram suae operae anno 1600 protulit, antequam opera Periana monstraretur, et eam biennium post in scaenam attulit.
↑ "Le tre Euridici: Characterization and Allegory in the Euridici of Peri and Caccini". Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

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