His Giasone was " the most popular opera of the 17th century". Amongst the most important of Monteverdi's successors, Cavalli was a major force in spreading opera throughout Italy and also helped introduce it to France. Later, in Venice in the 1640s, he helped make opera a commercially viable form with Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea, one of the earliest operas in the present-day operatic repertoire. In Orfeo (1607) he blended Peri's experiments in opera with the lavish spectacle of the intermedi. Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Generally regarded as the first major opera composer.Florentine who composed both the first opera ever, Dafne (1598), and the first surviving opera, Euridice (1600).
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