... more passion and criticism than any other musical genre. However, the opera that we are so used to today is born from a wide succession of changes, which developed over a period of six centuries beginning in Italy at the end of 15th century. But how did it all begin? Where and how did such a passionate feeling for this art form come from? It is believed ... impose itself amongst the Venetian public. He composed his last two operas while in Venice Il ritorno d"Ulisse in 1640 and L"incoronazione di Poppea in 1642. Both of which are accounts taken from Greek mythology. This is the first ti...

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