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Jacopo Peri
Italian composer and singer
Years: 1561 - 1663
Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) is an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera.
He writes the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600).
