Question

Who composed Orfeo and was also recognized for having solidified early experiments with music dramas into the genre now called opera

Answer 1

Within a decade of the earliest productions, the masterful composer of madrigals Claudio Monteverdi made his debut in the field with two dramatic works: La favola d’Orfeo , the first opera to maintain a place in the modern repertory, and L’Arianna (1608).