Kalaido was found­ed in the win­ter of 2018 with­in the ear­ly music depart­ment of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. There, a group of singers and con­tin­uo play­ers got togeth­er to play and per­form Italian 17^th cen­tu­ry baroque music from around Rome. After hav­ing a cou­ple of suc­cess­ful per­for­mances in the Early Music Open Stage (or EMOS) in the con­ser­va­to­ry, they set their mind to enter­ing the fringe of Utrecht and Bruges to intro­duce this music to a big­ger audi­ence.
The pro­gram, exist­ing of reper­toire only fea­tur­ing high voic­es, is quite unique in this sense and is bare­ly per­formed. It evolved from pieces that were writ­ten for the poor in Rome, fol­low­ing the tra­di­tion of the ora­to­rio start­ed by San Filippo Neri.
To bring this music, they brought togeth­er an ensem­ble cast fea­tur­ing a wide arrange of nationalities.