a : having or showing great knowledge or understanding. 1  a profound thinker. 2  His knowledge of history is profound. 3  Her books offer profound insights into the true nature of courage.
Arts | OPERA REVIEW. OPERA REVIEW; A Blind Pop Tenor Takes On the Operatic Stage. There were crestfallen faces throughout the audience at the Detroit Opera House on Friday night as Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut in the title role of Massenet's ''Werther'' with the Michigan Opera Theater.
Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 - 12 August 1633) was an Italian â¦ composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600). Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer.