Benedetto Ferrari

(1603-1681)

Benedetto Ferrari was born in Reggio Emilia in 1603, the same year of the composers Albicastro, Breni, Uccellini. He died in Modena on the 22nd October 1681

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of first 1600

OPERE

"L'Armida" has been put on the stage in February 1639 in Venezia (Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo)

"Il pastor regio" was performed on the 23rd of Jenuary 1640 in Venezia (Teatro San Moisè)

"La ninfa avara, fabola boschereccia" has been represented in 1641/2 in Venezia (Teatro San Moisè)

"Proserpina rapita" has been represented in Venezia in 1641/2 (Teatro San Moisè)

"La finta savia" has been performed in carnival 1643 in Venezia (Teatro Novissimo)

"Il principe giardiniera" was performed in Venezia on the 30th of December 1643 (Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo)

"Enone abbandonata" was performed in (?)

"Egisto" was performed in 1651 in Piacenza

"Gli amori di Alessandro Magno, e di Rossane" has been represented in 1656 in Bologna

"L'Erosilda" was performed in 1658 in Modena

LIEDER

"Donne non mi credete", Anonymous

"The Waterseller of Seville" (1623), oil on canvas, 106.7 x 81 cm, of the painter Diego Velazquez, contemporary of Ferrari (Wellington Museum, London)

Benedetto Ferrari

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