The very designation ‘Caccini’s Ave Maria’ is one that provokes debate. Who is Caccini? And was the piece actually anything to do with him? The answer to the first question is easy: Caccini was a ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini. Show more Giulio Caccini was one of the most ...

She worked for the Medici family, modelling her career on that of her father Giulio Caccini. Although there is evidence to suggest Caccini wrote at least 16 staged works, only one opera by Caccini ...

Francesca Caccini has been hailed as the first female composer to write an opera. However this isn’t necessarily true. The work in question, La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, was written ...

(Le) musiche, Movements: Io moro, ecco ch'io moro (wds. G. Marino) Le Poème Harmonique Claudio Saracini, Composer Vincent Dumestre, Conductor Tutto 'l di piango Vincent Dumestre, Conductor Giulio ...