Monteverdi - the Nervous Father of Opera
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	These are part of a series of drawings I was invited to do to accompany an article on the history of satire in opera (by Jonathan Biggins), to be published in Opera Australia's 2005 Yearbook. Tangential and whimsical references  (in Biggins' article) to Monteverdi's epithet as "The Father of Opera", and discussion of the now-passe fashion of umpteen verses in the da capo aria form (and Wagner's legendary long-windedness) lead to these two...
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