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Jason

Recordings

Cavalli: Giasone Francesco Cavalli (Composer), René Jacobs (Conductor), and Concerto Vocale (CD)

Readings

Apollonius, The Argonautica (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford University Press. Cicognini’s libretto for Giasone was based on this Greek tale of “Jason and the Golden Fleece.”
Glover, Jane. 1978. Cavalli. St. Martin's Press. Jane Glover, who wrote the acclaimed Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music, wrote this scholarly book on Cavalli’s early contributions to opera. This book is available at the Chicago Public Library
Rosand, Ellen. 2007. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre. University of California Press.