While resurrecting the oldest surviving opera, Haymarket Opera and the Newberry Consort built on more recent history. Chicago hosted the American premiere of Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” in 1967, when ...

6 October 1600, Florence. The city is ablaze with celebration as the Medici court hosts a spectacular wedding. Amid the lavish feasting and pageantry is suitably extravagant entertainment: Jacopo Peri ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Every year, on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, Woodend is crowded with lovers of classical music.

1600, Florence. At a lavish Medici wedding, Jacopo Peri’d Euridice introdces a radical new idea: drama told entirely through music. This is the birth of opera. Show more 6 October 1600, Florence. The ...