The very designation ‘Caccini’s Ave Maria’ is one that provokes debate. Who is Caccini? And was the piece actually anything to do with him? The answer to the first question is easy: Caccini was a ...
A typical day for three musicians in the Medici Court. This portrait, of three unnamed musicians, was painted circa 1687. Wikimedia Commons Francesca Caccini, born on this day in 1587, was the most ...
Francesca Caccini was born on 18 September 1587 into a highly musical family. Her father, Giulio Caccini was a famed Italian Baroque composer, and her sister, Settimia Caccini, was a well-known singer ...
Francesca Caccini has been hailed as the first female composer to write an opera. However this isn’t necessarily true. The work in question, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, was written ...
Caccini: La Liberazione di Ruggiero CD review – first opera by a woman stands firmly on its own feet
Francesca Caccini (1587-c1645) was in at the very beginnings of opera. She was part of a musical family who regularly played and sang at the Medici court in Florence, including performances of the ...
Caccini was a Florentine performer and composer from a musical family who worked for the powerful and wealthy Medici court, chiefly under her patron, Christina of Lorraine. Caccini sang the title role ...
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