Rendezvous Arts Presents The Haymarket Opera Company and Millinery Artist Eia Radosavljevic

Chicago’s Haymarket Opera Company makes their Rendezvous debut this month. Founded in 2010, Haymarket‘s productions include more than 30 operas using period instruments and historically informed staging. They are sung and played by a combination of international stars and regional talent. In 2020 Musical America lauded Haymarket as “among the most impressive period-performance ensembles around today.”

Haymarket presents an all-Handel program with arias from Alcina, Tamerlano, Rodelinda, and Acis and Galatea. Featured artists are Emily Birsan, soprano, Chase Hopkins, tenor, Jeri-Lou Zike, violin, Martin Davids, violin, Craig Trompeter, cello, and Jacob Reed, harpsichord.

Eia Radosavljevic, Millinery Artist

Millinery artist Eia Radosavljevic joins this program with a display of her amazing hat creations. As a teenager, Eia was a dancer. When she received her first paycheck for dancing in the “Nutcracker” she went straight to Marshall Field’s and bought an indigo blue crushed velvet hat with small, curled feathers all around the crown! She has been in love with hats ever since. Eia describes her hats as “elegant, artistic, and finely crafted, with a sense of movement and a dash of humor.”