Aaron J. Rabushka asks:
>>Is this the same Alessandro Striggio who wrote libretti for Monteverdi?
>>If so it's interesting to know that he wrote music too!
Satoshi Akima replies:
>I doubt it is the same person. The composer Alessandro Striggio was born
>circa 1535 and died in 1592. Monteverdi was born in 1567 and died in 1643.
>Monteverdi's did not write his first opera, Orfeo, until 1607, long after
>Striggio had died.
Alessandro Striggio the librettist (b. 1573) was the son of Alessandro
Striggio the composer.
Scott Morrison