Jacopo Peri
Italian composer and singer
Died when: 71 years 357 days (863 months)Star Sign: Leo
Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633), known under the pseudonym Il Zazzerino, was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and was often called the inventor of opera.
He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600).
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