La Calisto

Les Talens Lyriques

October 9, 2010, 1:00 pm

Composer: Francesco Cavalli
Conductor: Christophe Rousset

Cast: Sophie Karthauser (Calisto); Marie-Claude Chappuis (Diana); Giovanni B. Parodi (Giove); Veronique Gens (Giunone/Il Destino); Lawrence Zazzo (Endimione); Milena Storti (Linfea); Mario Cassi (Mercurio); Sabina Puertolas (Satirino); Graeme Broadbent (Sylvano) Cyril Auvity (La Natura/Pane)

In Cavalli's lyrical, early Baroque drama, the title character is a nymph who violates a vow of chastity. For her trouble, she becomes the object of Jovian conflict, gets turned into a bear, and winds up seeing herself in lights -- literally -- when she's flung into the sky as the constellation Ursa Major.

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