Starting my sandbox (I hope)! --LMR0804 (talk) 23:02, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
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La Dafne (Daphne) is the first full-length opera ever composed and documented. It was written in 1594 by the Italian composer Marco da Gagliano with the libretto written by Ottavio Rinuccini. Created by the Camerata in Florence, Italy as an attempt to recreate Greek tragedies, it is described as a favola in musica in one act and a prologue. La Dafne is based on the myth of Daphne and Apollo as related by Ovid in the first book of the Metamorphoses. It is a reworking and expansion of the text Rinuccini had given Jacopo Peri to set around 1598. The opera was first performed at the Ducal Palace, Mantua in late February, 1608.[1] It had originally been intended to form part of the wedding celebrations of Prince Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua and Margherita of Savoy, but the arrival of the bride was delayed and the staging was brought forward (Monteverdi's opera L'Arianna was also written for the marriage but not performed until May). A private performance of Dafne was given in Florence at the house of Don Giovanni de' Medici on 9 February 1611. The Medici were the patrons of the Florentine Gagliano and the laurel (into which the heroine of the opera is transformed) was their symbol.