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| | Euridice (Jacopo Peri) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Peri's opera, the first to survive with its music complete, was written for the celebration in Florence of the wedding of Maria de'Medici to the French King Henri IV. |
 | | The figure of Tragedy, with the best of Aristotelian intentions, introduces the pitiful story, which opens with Eurydice happy at her approaching wedding, with her bridegroom Orpheus equally delighted, until a messenger appears telling him of the fatal snake-bite and the death of his beloved. |
 | | Peri's drama, with its continuous music, includes choruses to end each scene and notable solo elements, with the lament of Orpheus, Non piango e non sospiro (I weep not and sigh not) and his later expression of grief Funeste piagge, ombrosi orridi campi (Dreadful shores, dark terrible fields). |
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