 The ensemble's first production was in January 1991, Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice", with countertenor Derek Lee Ragin as Orpheus and soprano Tracey Mitchell as Euridice, with a period-instrument orchestra, at the Church of St Paul the Apostle in the Upper West Side.Later in 1991, they mounted Monteverdi's "Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda", again with a period orchestra.In 1992, OQ produced the New York premiere of Louise LaBruyère's "Everyman", after the medieval morality play.