L'AmFiparnaso

The first ever comic opera, from the same year that the first known opera was performed. The title alludes to Mount Parnassus as the mythical home of the nine muses.

by Orazio Vecchi

Provided here in its original form, in untranslated Italian with the sheet music, from the first edition.
Modern performances often arrange the music in madrigal style, though nothing in this sheet music suggests this to have been the intent.

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