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 ...

This weekend, the Boston Early Music Festival presents Francesca Caccini’s “La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina,” the latest in its annual series of chamber operas. First performed in 1625, ...

Francesca Caccini (1587-c1645) was in at the very beginnings of opera. She was part of a musical family who regularly played and sang at the Medici court in Florence, including performances of the ...

Francesca Caccini—a virtuoso singer, court composer, and music teacher in the employ of the Medicis—was caught up in the invention of opera as an art form in the early seventeenth century. She likely ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the worlds of opera and classical music, women are ever more prominent and distinguished — as composers, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — When the sorceress Alcina sets a spell in motion during the opera that bears her name, she entrancingly waves her wand over her forest of once-human trees; her imprisoned lover, ...