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I received it. Our messages to the web get delivered to everyone but
ourselves, I think. It was another who needed the information on operas.
I'll try sending this to the list.
At 12:03 01/12/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Juliana,
>I have a piece of info. that might be of interest: the first Italian opera
>(or, perhaps the first ever) was the "Dafne' by Rinuccini, published as a
>libretto in 1600 and performed in Florence. I gave a paper on this rare
>libretto at a AAIS conference.
>In our Italian collections at the Humanities Research Center, at the
>University of Texas in Austin, we have this libretto in a collection of
>rare opera libretti, 3,800 of them and scholars have come to study some
>aspects of the opera through these libretti.
>Let me know if you want more info. on this opera. My correspondence with
>this Italian list has been frustrating: I receive messages but I seem not
>to get through when I send something, so let me know if you receive this.
>
>Prof. Maria X. Wells
>The University of Texas in Austin
>French and Italian Dept.
>Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
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