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...Glyndebourne Festival staged Calisto (1651) twice in the early '70s, and the Santa Fe Opera put on Egisto...
...return to the conventional, there are two concerts this week which in their own way are as non-conformist as the contemporary ones. The Boston University School of Music Opera Workshop is staging "La Calisto," an opera in three acts by Francesca Caralli, conducted by Warren George Wilson, "La Calisto" is an Arcadian myth of gods, satyrs, wood nymphs and who knows what else, and has been called "a significant part of the current Baroque opera revival," which makes it curious in itself. Catch the wood nymphs next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the BU Theatre, 269 Huntington Ave., Boston...
...Opera Workshop performs Cavalli's "La Calisto." At BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., Boston at 8. Tickets...
...auditorium. Then Corbett and his wife Patricia decided that the university's music complex needed a more intimate house alongside it. To open its acoustically superb 400-seat Patricia Corbett Theater, the university announced what seemed an unlikely production: Pier Francesco Cavalli's 321-year-old opera Calisto, which Conductor Raymond Leppard dusted off for Britain's Glyndebourne Festival in 1970. By last week, the little-known Calisto was the hottest ticket in town...
...wonder. The work is an unabashed sex comedy, a Myra Breckenridgian imbroglio of ungodly carryings-on among ancient deities. Cavalli's music floats along, endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear...