This is my 3rd post for the baroque period.I Know this seems like it will take a lot of posts, But every post has something added from the last post.Once I Finish posting on the Baroque period(maybe 2-3 more posts) I will start of with the classical period, and then the romantic period.There will be Side posts that will be smaller than this, just incase you get bored.
So now, this is the surprising part.So later in the baroque period,(Like the late baroque) many elements that were there at the start of the baroque period were gone.Instead of the traditional opera with just singers and 1 instrument accompanied with a single bass instrument,(such as the cello),the new style was to a small group of opera singers, with an orchestra with it including stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, and brass instruments.
The person who performed the first opera, was Jacopo Peri.Jacopo Peri was born in 1561, and was raised in Florence.As a teenager, he played the organ(Known as the pipe organ) and went to different churches to sing.It was then in 1598 when he performed the La dafne, the first Opera.He also liked to collaborate with multiple other composers,Like Giovanni Battista da Gagliano and Marco da Gagliano.
Citations:Source 1-The classical Music Book