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.