service agreement. A contract entered into for a contractor to provide some form of useful task for their employers in return for compensation. A service agreement can also be a feature offered along with a warranty for a product for the manufacturer to provide service or coverage of any costs of service in case the product malfunctions during a given period.
Euridice (1600) is the first surviving opera. The libretto was by Rinuccini, music by Peri, with some portions by Caccini. This was also significant in that it used recitative, a foundation of operatic storytelling. But--what was the first great opera? My vote is for Monteverdi's Orfeo, libretto by Striggio, premiered in 1607.
Dafne by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today, although with only five instrumental parts it was much more like a chamber opera than either the preceding intermedi or the operas of Claudio Monteverdi a few years later.he libretto was by Ottavio Rinuccini, who reused some of the material in the first opera Dafne in 1597. The art form known as opera originated in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though it drew upon older traditions of medieval and Renaissance courtly entertainment.