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ComposerLanier, Nicholas (1588-1666)
PeriodBaroque
Work typeVocal
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Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.