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Cincinnati Opera is presenting its first-ever baroque opera, "La Calisto" by Francesco Cavalli, in five performances opening Thursday in Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

La Calisto of 1651 was written at a time when the notion of creating opera that could make money was still fairly new. This goes a long way to explaining its nature because Cavalli and his librettist ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The nymph Calisto was decentring men for Venetian audiences back in 1651. Giovanni Faustini’s racy libretto for ...

"A loopy postmodern take on the baroque" is David Alden's description of his production of Cavalli's La Calisto, an import from Munich, where it was first seen in 2005. It doesn't quite do Cavalli's ...