The slow recovery of the genius of Francesco Cavalli has allowed us to discover, after centuries of oblivion, the delights of La Calisto, today an essential title of baroque opera. In its premiere at the Teatro Real, Ivor Bolton conducts the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla and a first-rate cast.
David Alden harnesses the great expressiveness and dramatic force of Cavalli's music to create a staging where the once unattainable gods prove as irreverent as the human beings they rule.
Dramma per musica in a prologue and three acts
Music by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Libretto by Giovanni Faustini, based the Metamorphoses (8 AD), by Ovid
Premiered at the Teatro San Apollinare of Venice on 28 November 1651
Premiere at the Teatro Real
Production by the Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich
Seville Baroque Orchestra
Artistic team
Conductor I Ivor Bolton
Stage director | David Alden
Set designer | Paul Steinberg
Costume designer I Buki Shiff
Lighting designer | Pat Collins
Choreographer I Beate Vollack
Cast
La Natura, Satirino, Le Furie I Dominique Visse
L’eternita, Giunone I Karina Gauvin
Il Destino, Diana, Le Furie I Monica Bacelli
Giove I Luca Tittoto
Mercurio I Nikolay Borchev
Calisto I Louise Alder
Endimione I Tim Mead
Linfea I Guy De Mey
Pane I Ed Lyon
Silvano I Andrea Mastroni
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