Francesco Cavalli’s fascinating Baroque opera La Calisto plunges us into a whirlwind of mythology, eroticism and divine passions, in which the gods prove to be just as earthly and capricious as mortals themselves. With David Alden’s bold stage direction and Maestro Ivor Bolton’s energetic musical direction at Teatro Real.
Directly inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this spicy and brilliant comedy unfolds when the mighty Jupiter disguises himself as the goddess Diana to circumvent the vow of chastity made by the beautiful nymph Callisto, unleashing the relentless fury and jealousy of his wife, Juno.
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
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
Seville Baroque Orchestra
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