La Calisto
Francesco Cavalli
The delights of love in the kingdom of Jupiter under the baton of Sébastien Daucé.
Dates
Sébastien Daucé | direction
Jetske Mijnssen | staging
Julia Katharina Berndt | design
Kathrin Brunner | dramaturgy
Hannah Clark | costumes
Bernd Purkrabek | lights
Lauranne Oliva | Calisto
Zachary Wilder | Linfea
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian | Endimione
Milan Siljanov | Giove / Diana
Dominic Sedgwick | Mercurio
Anna Bonitatibus | Giunone / Eternita
Giuseppina Bridelli | Diana
Petr Nekoranec | Natura / Pane / Coro
NN | Satirino / Coro / Furia
José Coca Loza | Silvano
Ensemble Correspondances
About
The libretto of La Calisto by Cavalli is drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an extraordinary pagan bible in which desire in all its forms presides over the creation of the world. The constellation of the Great Bear was formed by the nymph Calisto when she was transformed into a bear by Juno in a fit of jealousy. Almost a century before Semele by Handel or its close relative Platée by Rameau, La Calisto made its mark as one of the earliest musical settings of the outlandish love affairs of Jupiter, the Don Juan of Mount Olympus. This Calisto is one of the brightest gems of Venetian opera, and is characterized by a blend of genres and situations: tenderness, languor, misunderstandings, debauchery, lust, betrayal, and jealousy. But what if Mount Olympus were a mirror of our own world?
Nouvelle production du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Coproduction Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Ensemble Correspondances | Opéra de Rennes | Angers-Nantes Opéra | théâtre de Caen
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