Jacopo Peri

Jacopo Peri (Italian:; 20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italiancomposer, singer, and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600).

He is sometimes known by the bynamell Zazzerino (lit.'the blond one').