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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 ...

(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 ...

Composer Jacopo Peri and poet Ottavio Rinuccini create Dafne, a small-scale pastoral drama featuring stile rappresentativo, a new style of sung dialogue more expressive than speech but less melodious ...