What: Monteverdi 450 Lecture Series: L'Orfeo, Lecture-Demonstration: Staging Myth Music from L'Orfeo - When: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. - Where: Italian Cultural Institute - 500 N Michigan Avenue Suite 1450. RSVP at https://lorfeo.eventbrite.com  

On the occasion of the upcoming US premiere of "Monteverdi 450" at Harris Theater, celebrating the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi's birth, Musicologist Robert Kendrick, University of Chicago, will discuss the first of three of Monteverdi's great works to survive intact. A demonstration will be performed by Third Coast Baroque. Presented in collaboration with the Harris Theater.