Haymarket Opera is teaming up with The Newberry Consort to present Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” on Oct. 24 and 25, 2025. The oldest surviving opera, which originally premiered in 1600 and had its American premiere at the University of Chicago in 1967, will take the stage of the Music Institute of Chicago in a production starring Soprano Erica Schuller and tenor {…}
There is a famous painting by Gustave Moreau called “Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus on His Lyre” from 1865. The foreground shows exactly what the title describes. The background is harder to make out: some people are gathered on a cliff, one of them playing an aulos. Small tortoises walk near the Thracian woman’s feet, happily sauntering about {…}
“Euridice” by Giulio Caccini was printed in 1600, as the first publication of an opera score. This signified the birth of opera and forever established the ground-breaking genre that we still admire today. Causing a stir at the start, Caccini is said to have been in direct competition for the publication of this score with another regarded composer of the {…}
Throughout the weekend of Feb. 23-25, the Cantanti Project will showcase a revival of the rare opera “Euridice” by Caccini. The performance will showcase such singers as Michael Celentano, Tom Corbeil, Lydia Dahling, Brittany Fowler, Fiona Gillespie, Marques Hollie, Aumna Iqbal, Elyse Kakacek, Laura Mitchell, Joyce Yin, Sara Lin Yoder, all under the direction of Brittany Goodwin. The Cantanti Project {…}