Francesca Caccini is considered by historians to be the first female opera composer, and her opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina was commissioned in 1625 by Maria Magdelena of Austria, who was, as the time Archduchess of Florence, to be performed as entertainment for the Polish Prince Wladislas Sigismund, in celebration of his defeat over the Turks. This setting of Ruggiero’s story, taken from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was itself an amalgamation of many different myths and legends, comes over 100 years before Handel's version, Alcina.
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