Staging 'Euridice'

Euridice was one of several music-theatrical works commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Maria de'' Medici and King Henri IV of France in Florence in October 1600. As the first ''opera'' to survive complete, it has been viewed as a landmark work, but its libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini have tended to be studied in the abstract rather than as something t...