Name: La Calisto
Start: 2020-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-12-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Admin

Organization

Singer

Contralto

Terry Wey

Endimione

Soprano

Susanne Blattert

L'Eternita

Ava Gesell

Le Furie

Kieran Carrel

Set designer

Torge Møller

Video designer

Dramaturge

Constantin Mende

Tenor

Pane

Charlotte Quadt

La Natura

Diana

Marie Heeschen

Il Destino

Giunone

Bass

Tobias Schabel

Giove

Martin Tzonev

Giorgos Kanaris

Mercurio

Lada Bočková

Calisto

Benno Schachtner

Satirino

Linfea

Silvano

Conductor

Hermes Helfricht

Stage director

Jens Kerbel

Momme Hinrichs

Costume designer

Verena Polkowski

Lighting designer

Max Karbe

Theater Bonn

Orchestra

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

La Calisto -  (Calisto)

Bonn

Germany

Opernhaus

La Calisto Cavalli

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In a way, one of most successful operas from the earlier period of Baroque has two lives: The first one ended with its first performance at the Venician Teatro Sant’ Apollinare in the year 1651 and the second one, which still continues today, began at the Glyndebourne Festival on 26 May 1970, where the work was conducted by Raymond Leppard, who also developed the performance version. That was the point when Francesco Cavalli’s LA CALISTO truly took to the great stages of the world.

Based on the second book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the opera tells the story of the wood nymph Calisto who belongs to the entourage of Diana, goddess of the hunt. Jupiter approaches Calisto in the guise of Diana, and with rather transparent intentions. His jealous wife Juno transforms the girl into a bear, which is in turn made immortal by the repentant father of the gods, who turns the bear into the heavenly constellation of Ursa Major.

Today, performances of Cavalli’s far-too-late success mostly avail themselves of the comparatively large-scale orchestra version created by Raymond Leppard for the 1970 performance. As confirmed both by the voices and by historical bills from copyists and musicians, at its premiere in 1651, the opera was accompanied by no more than six musicians – an orchestration which it might be particularly appropriate to remember today. LA CALISTO in the Bonn version extends the orchestra by additional musicians and promises to be a highly sensual experience.

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