(Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house.) Those opera adversaries who slam the music for its elitist and Eurocentric associations are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...