Origin of opera

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Opera, said D. Kern Holoman (40), was “born of the encounter of the lavish entertainments enjoyed by princely courts with academic experiments aimed at recreating the essence of Greek tragedy.” It was in Florence where a small group of literate humanists led by Jacopo Peri established the “Camerata” that opera began to assume the form that it would later achieve over time. The so-called Canti Carnascialeschi served as the basic format in which composers such as Peri integrated earlier seventeenth elements such as the courtly pageants called masques accompanied by an orchestra and dialogue called recitative (Wikipedia 2).
Italy was a natural home for the development of opera in that the period of the Renaissance was one in which a rediscovery of works from the classibal world of Greece and Rome was taking place (Palisca 31). Many of the earliest operas employed themes from classical literature, including the stories of the gods and the humans with whom they came into contact.

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