Francesco Cavalli's Baroque opera is staged with a cheeky sensibility in Highland Park. By Myron Meisel La Calisto: Opera - H 2014 While drawing on Classical myths (mostly from Ovid), the convoluted ...

Terrific cast%2C inventive staging and a wondrous set design made for an entertaining evening The orchestra was exquisite and Catacoustic Consort created a delicate palette %22La Calisto%22 repeats ...

Lustful gods, jealous goddesses, and a panoply of bawdy satyrs, nymphs, demigods, and shepherds will cavort across a stage at Yale singing of love and conquest in a production of “La Calisto,” an ...

Resetting 150- to 300-year-old operas in modern times is nothing new for contemporary stage directors aiming to lure today’s audiences. But it’s rare for a 368-year-old baroque opera to seem ...

When Francesco Cavalli wrote his opera “La Calisto” 363 years ago, he wasn’t thinking about how it would play in Los Angeles. When Giovanni Faustini was thinking up all the characters (and there are ...

Glimmerglass Festival’s production of “La Calisto” during orchestra dress rehearsal. Glimmerglass Festival's production of "La Calisto" during orchestra dress rehearsal. Glimmerglass Festival’s ...

Mannes Opera presents La Calisto with rising star conductor Kamna Gupta working with Artistic Director Emma Griffin to create a vivid and contemporary take on this wild tale. This presentation of La ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It must have seemed a bright idea. Give Francesco Cavalli (1602-76) a showing at Covent Garden, where his operas have ...

For the first 40 years of its existence, opera was strictly for the Italian nobility. Then in 1637 the first public opera house opened in Venice. Having paid good money, Venetians liked their operas ...

For their autumn visit to Snape English Touring Opera brought two works from the era of Venice’s rise to operatic prominence. Monteverdi’s ‘Ulysses’ Homecoming’ deals with the final part of Homer’s ...