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Operas by Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) composed ten operas, a genre which emerged while he was court musician in Mantua. His first opera, L'Orfeo, was premiered in 1607 and became the first opera still in today's repertoire. For seven opera projects the music is mostly lost. Four of these were completed and performed, while he abandoned the others at some point. Librettos have survived for some of them, and fragments of the music for L'Arianna and Proserpina rapita. Monteverdi composed operas for a theatre in Venice when he was master of music at San Marco there, including Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria in 1640 and L'incoronazione di Poppea in 1643, both of which also remain in the repertoire.

With exception to the List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi by and myself, this topic is entirely the work of, who has since passed away. (His birthday is today!) Brian's fabulous contributions resulted in what is currently the only major opera composer whose operatic oeuvre is entirely FAs. Thanks to all who review. Aza24 (talk) 01:25, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Tentative support as fulfilling criteria. Am in no way an expert in the area though. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:39, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Complete unconditional support: the articles are serious and well documented, Monteverdi deserves no less being the prime composer marking the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, notably with its innovative uses of dissonances. Plus he essentially invented the opera format in spite of a small couple of barely earlier pieces that are really more precursors than proper operas. An essential topic to understand music at the turn of the 17th century.Iry-Hor (talk) 11:34, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. The articles are all excellent. I remain unconvinced that 'Featured topics' serve much of a useful purpose, but as they exist, this should certainly be added to them.--Smerus (talk) 19:48, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support for the beforesaid reasons.--Aschmidt (talk) 22:04, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Strong support Meets the criteria easily; each article masterfully written. Bravi tutti! Zingarese talk  ·  contribs  23:48, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: The articles look fantastic, and it's certainly a worthy topic, but I'm confused by the inclusion of L'Arianna; isn't it one of the "lost operas"? If it's here because fragments of the music are extant, the articles seem to indicate that at least a bit of the music also remains from Proserpina rapita. It seems to me as though either both or neither of these should be included but I may be missing something. Great work to all who wrote them! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 02:00, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I had a feeling this would come up – I probably should have addressed it in the blurb above. Basically, L'Arianna is the only lost one where enough even exists to write a full article about – it's also very important for its Lamento, see the third paragraph of the article. Brian himself actually recognizes this on the Lost operas talk page. Anyways, to your point of fragments of music existing for Proserpina rapita as well, this is true, but this opera hardly had the influence of L'Arianna and an article dedicated solely to it would seriously struggle to have more information in it than the section for it already in the Lost operas article. Aza24 (talk) 05:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Support -- I'm with on this one, I'm not sure of the point of featured topics, but as a collection of excellently written articles, in my opinion, this has to be one of the best.   Cassianto Talk  06:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support -- Not my area of expertise, at all! But the articles look excellent, and I'm sure the grouping into a topic serves a purpose, if only to encourage the writing of such a good set of articles. KJP1 (talk) 08:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support -- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  15:36, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. KingSkyLord (talk &#124; contribs) 17:19, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and per Cassianto. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:36, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. ~ HAL  333  02:16, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. – ♠Vami _IV†♠  21:39, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom Eddie891 Talk Work 12:45, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per Cassianto. ——  Serial  13:22, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic. - GamerPro64  13:19, 3 August 2020 (UTC)