La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina)
Francesca Caccini (1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher. Her only surviving stage work, The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina, is widely considered the oldest opera by a woman composer. It is a comic opera in four scenes, first performed in 1625, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli based on Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando […]