OPERA

Cavalli: La Calisto

FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 20, 2022
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
2:30 PM SUNDAY

Mannes Opera
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

$21.50; $8 seniors
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Cavalli’s great Baroque opera (why isn’t this wonderful Venetian-in-Austria composer more famous????) (then again he’s doing better than Cesti) about sexual hijinks among the Roman gods, culminating in the transformation of the titular nymph, who crosses Juno by succumbing after great effort to Jove’s advances, into a bear — and her subsequent translation to the heavens as a familiar constellation. Great great stuff — tuneful, funny, ultimately moving.

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