Portal:Opera/DYK/11

... that composer Egidio Duni (pictured) was particularly influential in creating a new genre of opera which blended Italian opera elements with traditional French ones?
... that Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron?
... that Anthony, Charles, Cecilia, Isabella, Sr., Isabella, Jr., Esther, Elizabeth, and Polly Young were part of an English family of musicians that included several professional opera singers and organists in the 17th and 18th centuries?

All Did you know?

Source[edit]