This opera's first known 
This opera's first known public performance was in the Adorno Theater in Genoa, though it may have been performed much earlier in Salzburg as a "pastoral drama." This opera with libretto by Alessandro Striggio was written for performance at the Mantuan court, unlike the Jacopo Peri work it was probably modeled on. This opera, whose (*) title character sings the song "rosa del ciel" ["RO-sah del CHELL"] and ascends to heaven with his father Apollo's aid, is the oldest in the standard repertoire. For 10 points, name this Claudio Monteverdi opera about a mythological musician.
This opera's first known public performance was in the Adorno Theater in Genoa, though it may have been performed much earlier in Salzburg as a "pastoral drama.
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