Francesca Caccini was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, the Italian Renaissance composer credited with inventing opera.
She is believed to be the first woman to have written an opera and was a great favourite at the Medici court in Florence in the seventeenth century.
Only one of her operas survives - La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola d'Alchina. Leah Studdard and Lindsay Richardson were amongst those responsible for its UK premiere and Henrietta Otley joined them in rehearsal.
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