Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Archilei, La Vittoria

by John Weeks Moore

Archilei, La Vittoria, celebrated by the poet Guarini, was the original performer of the part of Euridice, in Jacob Peri's opera. She likewise sang in "La Desperazione di Fileno," in which recitando she is said by the composer, Cavaliere, to have drawn tears from every hearer.