Cremona

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Cremona is a city in the Italian region of Lombardy, famous for its creators of stringed instruments, especially Antonio Stradivari. Even today, this small city is home to a number of small violin-making workshops. It is also the birthplace of the late Renaissance/early Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi, whose opera L'Orfeo is the oldest opera that is still regularly performed today.