Name: Venus and Adonis
Start: 2018-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-12-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Flea Theater

Organization

Stage director

Jennifer Williams

Conductor

Stephan Fillare

Costume designer

Asa Benally

Lighting designer

Emily Clarkson

Video designer

Yee Eun Nam

Set designer

Soprano

Barbara Porto

Venus

Baritone

Scott Lindroth

Pope Clement VII

Julia Soojin Cavallaro

Cupido

Countertenor

Biraj Barkakaty

Huntsman

Emily Hughes

Shepherdess

Samina Aslam

Sāvitri

Bass

Angky Budiardjono

Brian J. Alvarado

New Camerata Opera

English

Venus and Adonis

New York City

United States

The Flea Theater

Venus and Adonis (+1 More)

Public

Savitri

Approved

A trailer of highlights from NCO's production of Sāvitri

John Blow’s opera, Venus and Adonis , explores and exploits the themes of power play, manipulation, and yearning. Venus’s reluctance to surrender coupled with Adonis’s innocence leads to both a tragic accident and poignant transcendence. The work was the first to have been written by a female librettist, Anne Finch.

Blow’s reinterpretation of the myth features sensual English baroque music and scenes of love, desire and playful pageantry of cupids. Controversially categorized by some scholars as the first English baroque opera, this piece inspired legendary later works including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas .

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew