La Maddalena (Magdalene / 1617 Andreini), play
La Maddalena [aka La Maddalena lasciva e penitente] <Italian> / Magdalene (1617) is a play by Giovan Battista Andreini.
Abstract
The “sacra rappresentazione” included incidental music and arias composed for the occasion by a group of Italian musicians, namely, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Salomone Rossi (1570-c.1630), Muzio Effrem (1549-c.1640), and Alberto Ghivizzani (c.1572-c.1632).
Editions, performances, translations
Written for the festivities celebrating the wedding of Duke Ferdinando di Gonzaga and Caterina de’ Medici, was performed in Mantua, Italy: Palazzo Ducale, March 1617.
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Categories:
- 1617
- Fiction--1600s
- Fiction--Italian--1600s
- Literature--1600s
- Music--1600s
- Plays--1600s
- Italian language--1600s
- Made in the 1610s
- Christian Origins Studies--1600s
- Christian Origins Studies--Italian--1600s
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction--1600s
- Life of Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Mary Magdalene (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--fiction (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--music (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--literature (subject)