Rappresentazione di Dafne
Subtitle: favola pastorale
By: composta dal Signor Ottavio Rinuccini et fatta recitare in musica dal Signor Jacopo Corsi
Publisher: Marescotti?
Published: 1598
Place of publication: Firenze?
Language: ita
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Dafne
Notes: Opera in a prologue and six scenes, based on book 1 of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Music composed Jacopo Peri and Jacopo Corsi.

"This experimental musico-dramatic work, for which the music survives only partially in manuscript, and which its creators called a favola in musica (musical tale), is generally considered the first opera"--Grove [Oxford] music online.