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Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

Jacqueline Waeber
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
1581

Galilei, Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna; Ballet comique de la Reine (Paris)

1589

Bargagli, La Pellegrina (Florence)

1597/8

Peri, La Dafne (Florence)

1600

Peri, L’Euridice (Florence); Caccini, Il rapimento di Cefalo (Florence); Cavalieri, La Rappresentazione di Anima, et di Corpo (Rome)

1600/1

Caccini, L’Euridice (print)

1601/2

Caccini, L’Euridice (Florence), Le Nuove musiche (print)

1607

Monteverdi, Orfeo (Mantua); F. Caccini, La Stiava (Pisa)

1608

Gagliano, La Dafne (Mantua); Monteverdi, L’Arianna, Il Ballo delle ingrate (Mantua)

1610

Guédron, Le Ballet de Monseigneur le duc de Vandosme ou Ballet d’Alcine (Paris)

1613

Lanier, Somerset Masque (London)

1614

Monteverdi (?), Orfeo (Salzburg); Caccini, Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle

1617

Guédron, Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud (Paris); Lanier, Lovers Made Men, The Vision of Delight (London); A ‘Sing-Comedie’ on the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Würzburg)

1619

Gagliano, Peri, Lo sposalizio di Medoro et Angelica (Florence); F. Caccini, La Fiera (Florence); Guédron, Grand Ballet du Roi sur l’aventure de Tancrède en la Forêt enchantée (Paris)

1620

Vitali, Aretusa (Rome); Delizie di Posillipo boscarecce e marittime (Naples)

1621

Schütz, Glückwünschung des Apollinis und der neun Musen (Dresden)

1622

F. Caccini and Gagliano, Il martirio di Sant’Agata (Florence)

1624

Monteverdi, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Venice)

1624/5

Gagliano, La regina Sant’Orsola (Florence)

1625

F. Caccini, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Florence)

1626

Gagliano, La Giuditta (Venice); D. Mazzocchi, La catena d'Adone (Rome); Boësset, Grand Bal de la Douairière de Billebahaut (Paris)

1627

Piccinini and Monanni, La selva sin amor (Madrid); Schütz, Dafne (Torgau)

1628

Gagliano, La Flora (Florence)

1630

Monteverdi, Proserpina rapita (Venice)

c. 1630

Publication of Il Corago

1631 or 1632

Landi, Sant’Alessio (Rome)

1633

M. Rossi, Erminia sul Giordano (Rome)

1636

Sances, Ermiona (Padua)

1637

Opening of the Teatro San Cassiano (Venice) with Manelli, Andromeda; Marazzoli and V. Mazzocchi, L’Egisto, ovvero, Chi soffre speri (Rome)

1638

Manelli, La maga fulminata (Venice)

1638/9

Cavalli, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (Venice); Schütz, Orpheus und Eurydice (Dresden)

1639

Opening of the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo (Venice); Ferrari, Armida (Venice); Manelli, La Delia (Venice); Marazzoli and V. Mazzocchi, L’Egisto, ovvero, Chi soffre speri (Rome, revised production)

1640

First opera production at the Teatro S. Moisè (Venice); Doni, Trattato della musica scenica; Monteverdi, Il ritorno d'Ulisse (Venice); Cavalli, Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne (Venice)

1641

Inauguration of the Teatro Novissimo with Sacrati, La finta pazza (Venice); Monteverdi, Le nozze d'Enea e Lavinia (Venice)

1642

Cavalli, La virtù de’ strali d’Amore (Venice); Sacrati, Bellerofonte (Venice); L. Rossi, Il palazzo incantato (Rome)

1643

Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea (Venice); Sacrati, Venere gelosa (Venice)

1644

Cavalli, L’Ormindo (Venice); Staden, Geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel, genant Seelewig (Nuremberg)

1645

Sacrati, La finta pazza (Paris, Petit-Bourbon); Rovetta, Ercole in Lidia (Venice)

1646

Marazzoli and V. Mazzocchi, L’Egisto, ovvero, Chi soffre speri (Paris)

1647

Grasseschi, Datira (Siena); L. Rossi, Orfeo (Paris)

1648

Opening of the Teatro SS. Apostoli (Venice)

1649

Cavalli, Giasone (Venice)

1650

D’Assoucy, Andromède (Paris)

1651

Opening of the Teatro S. Apollinare (Venice); Cavalli, Calisto (Venice); Cesti, Alessandro vincitor di se stesso (Venice)

1652

Cavalli, La Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona (Naples)

1653

Cavalli, La Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona (Venice); Cambefort, Lambert et al., Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Paris); Hidalgo (attributed), Fortunas de Andrómeda y Perseo (Madrid); Locke, Cupid and Death; Provenzale/Cavalli, Il Ciro (Venice)

1654

Opening of the theatre San Bartolomeo (Naples); Caproli, Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti (Les Noces de Pélée et de Thétis, Paris); Cambefort, Les Charmes de Félicie, tirés de la Diane de Montemayor (Paris); Flecknoe, Ariadne Deserted by Theseus and Found and Courted by Bacchus (London); Staden, Geistliche Waldgedicht oder Freudenspiel, genant Seelewig (Wolfenbüttel)

1655

Cavalli, Erismena and Xerse (Venice); Cesti, L’Argia (Innsbruck)

1656

Opening of the Teatro S. Samuele (Venice); Lawes, Locke et al., The Siege of Rhodes (London); Cesti, Orontea (Innsbruck); Hidalgo, Pico y Canente (Madrid)

1657

Ziani, Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (Venice); Cavalli, Artemisia (Venice); Cesti, La Dori (Innsbruck)

1658

Cavalli, Hipermestra (Florence)

1659

Volpe, La Costanza di Rosmonda (Venice)

1660

Aureli, L’Antigona delusa da Alceste (Venice); Hidalgo, La púrpura de la rosa (Madrid); Cavalli, Xerse, with additional entrées by Lully (Paris)

1661

Opening of the Teatro S. Salvatore (Venice); Hidalgo, Celos aun del aire matan (Madrid); J. Melani, Ercole in Tebe (Florence)

1662

Cavalli, Ercole amante (Paris); Bontempi, Il Paride (Dresden)

1663

Opening of the Drury Lane Theatre (London); Sebastiani, Pastorello musicale or the Verliebte Schäffer-Spiel (Königsberg)

1664

Cavalli, Scipione affricano (Venice); Locke, Macbeth (London); Banister, The Indian Queen (London)

1665

Cavalli, Mutio Scevola (Venice)

1666

Cesti, Il Tito (Venice)

1667

Inauguration of the Komödienhaus am Taschenberg (Dresden) with Ziani’s Il Teseo

1668

J. Melani, Il Girello (Rome); Cesti, Il Pomo d’oro (Vienna)

1669

Foundation of the Académie d’Opéra (Paris; renamed in 1671 Académie Royale de Musique); Cesti, Argia (Siena); Lully, Ballet de Flore

1670

Molière and Lully, Les Amants magnifiques (Saint-Germain-en-Laye); Molière and Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Chambord, then Paris)

1671

Opening of the Dorset Garden Theatre (London); Ziani, Heraclio (Venice); Cambert, Pomone (Paris)

1672

Sartorio, Orfeo (Venice); Pasquini, La sincerità con la sincerità, overo Il Tirinto (Ariccia); Cesti, Dori and Il Tito (Siena); J. Melani, Il Girello (Siena); Bontempi and Peranda, Musicalisches Schauspiel von der Dafne (Dresden)

1673

Lully, Cadmus et Hermione, Les Fêtes de l’Amour et de Bacchus (Paris); Bontempi, Jupiter und Io (Dresden)

1674

Draghi, Il ratto delle Sabine and Il fuoco eterno custodito dalle Vestali (Vienna); Lully, Alceste (Paris); Cavalli, Erismena (?) (London); Locke, The Tempest (London); Perrault, Critique de l’opéra, ou Examen de la tragédie intitulée Alceste

1675

Legrenzi, Eteocle e Polinice (Venice); Lully, Thésée (Saint-Germain-en-Laye); Locke, Psyche (London)

1676

Sartorio, Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Venice); Lully, Atys (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

1677

Opening of the Teatro S. Angelo (Venice); Legrenzi, Totila (Venice); Agostini, L’Adalinda (Siena); Lully, Isis (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

1678

Opening of the Teatro S. Giovanni Grisostomo (Venice); establishment of the Theatre am Gänsemarkt (Hamburg); Theile, Adam und Eva (Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch), Orontes (Hamburg); Lully, Psyché (Paris)

1679

Lully, Bellérophon (Paris); Scarlatti, Gli equivoci nel sembiante (Rome)

1680

Creation of the Comédie-Française (Paris); Scarlatti, L’honestà negli amori (Rome); Lully, Proserpine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye); Strungk, Alceste and Die liebreiche, durch Tugend und Schönheit erhöhte Esther (Hamburg)

1681

Lully, Le Triomphe de l’Amour (Saint-Germain-en-Laye); Lorenzani, Nicandro et Fileno (Fontainebleau); Steffani, Marco Aurelio (Munich)

1682

Lully, Persée (Paris)

1683

Legrenzi, Il Giustino (Venice); Scarlatti, L’Aldimiro, o vero Favor per favore and La Psiche, o vero Amore innamorato (Naples); Lully, Phaëton (Versailles)

c. 1683

Blow, Venus and Adonis (London)

1684

Lully, Amadis (Paris)

1685

Lully, Roland (Versailles) and Le Temple de la Paix (Fontainebleau); Grabu, Albion and Albanius (London); Steffani, Solone, Audacia e rispetto (Munich)

1686

Lully, Armide (Paris); Lully, Acis et Galatée (Anet); Lully, Cadmus (London); Franck, Cara Mustapha (Hamburg); Franck, Die drey Töchter Cecrops (Ansbach/Hamburg); Steffani, Servio Tullio (Munich)

1687

Lully, Achille et Polyxène (Paris); Steffani, Alarico il Baltha (Munich)

1688

Charpentier, David et Jonathas (Paris); Lorenzani, Orontée (Chantilly); Steffani, Niobe, regina di Tebe (Munich)

1689

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (London); Collasse, Thétis et Pélée (Paris); Krieger, Die ausgesöhnte Eifersucht oder Cephalus und Procris (Weissenfels); Pallavicino and Strungk, Antiope (Dresden); Steffani, Henrico Leone (Hanover)

1690

Foundation of the Accademia dell’Arcadia (Rome); Purcell, Dioclesian (London)

1691

Purcell, King Arthur (London); Conradi, Die schöne und getreue Ariadne (Hamburg); Steffani, Orlando generoso (Hanover)

1692

Conradi, Die Verstöhrung Jerusalem (Hamburg); Kusser, Ariadne (Braunschweig); Purcell, The Fairy-Queen (London)

1693

Noris, Nerone fatto Cesare (Venice); Charpentier, Médée (Paris); Desmarets, Didon (Paris); Strungk, Alceste (Leipzig)

1694

Scarlatti, Pirro e Demetrio (Naples); Jacquet de La Guerre, Céphale et Procris (Paris); Kusser, Erindo (Hamburg)

1695

Scarlatti, Pirro e Demetrio (Siena); Collasse, Les Saisons (Paris); Desmarets, Les Amours de Momus (Paris)

1697

Scarlatti, La caduta de’ Decemviri (Naples); Campra, L’Europe galante (Paris); Destouches, Issé (Fontainebleau); Keiser, Adonis (Hamburg)

1698

Eccles, Rinaldo and Armida (London); Navas, Destinos vencen finezas (Madrid)

1699

Campra, Le Carnaval de Venise (Paris); Strungk, Agrippina (Leipzig)

1700 ?

Kusser, Adonis (Stuttgart)

1701

Hidalgo, Torrejón y Velasco, La púrpura de la rosa (Lima); Keiser, Störtebecker (Hamburg); Ballet de Narva (Stockholm)

1702

Raguenet, Parallèle des Italiens et des Français en ce qui regarde la musique et les opéras

1703

Albinoni, Griselda (Florence); Destouches, Le Carnaval et la Folie (Fontainebleau); Keiser, Claudius (Hamburg)

1704

Le Cerf de la Viéville, Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique française

1706

Marais, Alcyone (Paris)

1709

Steffani, Tassilone (Düsseldorf)

1710

Campra, Les Fêtes vénitiennes (Paris); Mattheson, Boris Goudenow (Hamburg)

1728

Hidalgo, Celos aun del aire matan (Mexico)

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