La Maddalena (Magdalene / 1617 Monteverdi, Rossi, Effrem, Ghivizzani), theatre music
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La Maddalena <Italian> / Magdalene (1617) is the theatre music by Claudio Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, and Alberto Ghivizzani for La Maddalena (Magdalene / 1617 Andreini), play.
Abstract
The “sacra rappresentazione” by Giovan Battista Andreini included incidental music and arias composed for the occasion by a group of Italian musicians, namely, Claudio Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi, Muzio Effrem, and Alberto Ghivizzani.
Editions, performances
Written for the festivities celebrating the wedding of Duke Ferdinando di Gonzaga and Caterina de’ Medici, the play and the music were performed in Mantua, Italy: Palazzo Ducale, March 1617.
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Categories:
- 1617
- Jewish Authorship--1600s
- Jewish Authorship--Italian
- Fiction--1600s
- Fiction--Italian
- Music--1600s
- Theatre Music
- Italian language--1600s
- Made in the 1610s
- Christian Origins Studies--1600s
- Christian Origins Studies--Italian
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction
- Life of Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--fiction (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--music (subject)