Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Show more Giulio Caccini was one of the most ...

Francesca Caccini has been hailed as the first female composer to write an opera. However this isn’t necessarily true. The work in question, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, was written ...

She worked for the Medici family, modelling her career on that of her father Giulio Caccini. Although there is evidence to suggest Caccini wrote at least 16 staged works, only one opera by Caccini ...

A typical day for three musicians in the Medici Court. This portrait, of three unnamed musicians, was painted circa 1687. Wikimedia Commons Francesca Caccini, born on this day in 1587, was the most ...

The Rivista Italiana di Musicologia was founded in 1966. Over the years it has published the writings of many important musicologists. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where ...

(Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house.) Those opera adversaries who slam the music for its elitist and Eurocentric associations are ...