Euridice (Peri) Euridice (Peri) Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini. It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri's earlier "Dafne" being lost. (Caccini wrote his own "Euridice" even as he supplied music to Peri's opera, published this version before Peri's was performed, in 1600, and got it staged two years later.) The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini is based on books X and XI of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" which recount the story of the legendary musician Orpheus and his wife Euridice. The opera was first performed in Florence on 6 October 1600 at the
Jacopo Fo prominent in the political campaign of Beppe Grillo. Jacopo Fo Jacopo Fo (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian writer-actor and director. He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Fo. His 1992 book "Lo Zen e l'arte di scopare" ("Zen and the Art of Fucking") sold more than 70,000 copies. It formed the basis of the 1994 monologue "Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire!" ("Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind If I Do!"), which Jacopo Fo worked on with his father and mother, featuring educational pieces on topics such as AIDS, contraception, sex education and sexual repression. The government of