Crossword-Solution: ARIANNA 7 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Monteverde produced his 'Arianna' in 1607, and his 'Orfeo' in 1608, and with these two works started opera upon the path of development which was to culminate in the works of Wagner.

Seven years later we enter upon the second period of the opera, when, on the occasion of the marriage of Francesco Gongeaza with Margherita, Infanta of Savoy, Rinuccini prepared the libretti for two operas, entitled "Dafne" and "Arianna," the second of which was set to music by Claudio Monteverde, the ducal musical director, a man of extraordinary genius.

After the death of his first wife, William Laird, Sr., married his sister-in-law, Arianna French Dunlop.

The new art-form received great stimulus from Claudio Monteverde, the Duke of Mantua's _maestro di capella_, who composed "Arianna" in honor of the marriage of Francesco Gonzaga with Margherita, Infanta of Savoy.

History has never done him sufficient justice.[218] He was quite worthy of measuring himself against Handel, and the comparison between Handel's _Arianna_ and that of Porpora, played at an interval of a few weeks,[219] did not prove to the advantage of the former.