Early Venetian Opera and "Incogniti" Literature

In few other periods has musical theatre been so intimately associated with literary history as in the very first decades of commercial Venetian opera. That some of the early Venetian librettists (Gian Francesco Busenello, Giacomo Badoer, Giulio Strozzi) were members of the foremost literary academy of the time, the Accademia degli Incogniti, is surely no…

In few other periods has musical theatre been so intimately associated with literary history as in the very first decades of commercial Venetian opera. That some of the early Venetian librettists (Gian Francesco Busenello, Giacomo Badoer, Giulio Strozzi) were members of the foremost literary academy of the time, the Accademia degli Incogniti, is surely no…