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Article: 'EURIDICE' A MODERN LOOK AT ANCIENT MYTH.(L.A. Life)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- October 10, 2000
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Byline: David Mermelstein Correspondent
Under Michael Milenski's iconoclastic direction, Long Beach Opera has a tradition of viewing obscure corners of the repertory with a fresh eye. That estimable habit continued this past weekend when the company took up temporary residence at the Getty Center's Harold Williams Auditorium to stage Jacopo Peri's ``Euridice,'' considered the first extant opera.
Premiering exactly 400 years ago (on Oct. 6, 1600) at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Peri's opera tells the tragic story of Orpheus and Eurydice (`'Euridice'' in the Italian version) - only in this staging of the myth, Orpheus gets his wife back for keeps. The ...