In one opera by this man, a character steals a boat after lulling another to sleep, prompting the chorus to sing that he has "tamed the sea with fragile wood.
In one opera by this man, a character steals a boat after lulling another to sleep, prompting the chorus to sing that he has "tamed the sea with fragile wood." In another opera by this man, an elderly former tutor commits suicide in a steam bath. The aria "Possente Spirito" appears in an opera by this man, which begins with the pastoral marriage of the two central characters. He wrote an opera in which (*) Drusilla confesses to an attempted assassination to protect her lover Ottone, who acted on the orders of Empress Ottavia in an attempt to kill the title future wife of Nero. A figure from Greek myth tries to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld in a 1607 opera by this man. For 10 points, name this early Italian opera composer of The Coronation of Poppea and L'Orfeo.
In one opera by this man, a character steals a boat after lulling another to sleep, prompting the chorus to sing that he has "tamed the sea with fragile wood.
Claudio Monteverdi