Jacopo Peri may not be a household name today, but in 1600 his opera “L’Euridice” was topping charts. In fact, it was the first opera ever — one of many that the early music group Arts Music Chicago ...

Around 1598, Jacopo Peri debuted Dafne—thought to be the world’s first opera—at the Florence, Italy, home of Jacopo Corsi, a composer and patron of the arts. Today the structure, which sits at the ...

The first performance considered opera, Jacopo Peri's now lost Dafne, was produced in Florence, so its little wonder the city is home to the oldest opera theatre in Italy. Built in 1656 under Gian ...