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La Calisto

La Calisto
theater tickets
Royal Opera House
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Royal Opera House
Bow Street
Covent Garden
London  WC2E 9DD
United Kingdom
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£29.70 - £121.00
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Booking from
Tue, 23rd September 2008
Booking to
Fri, 10th October 2008
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An absolute triumph of early opera, Cavalli’s La Calisto has all the baroque hallmarks of eloquent recitatives, sensuous arias and delightful dance rhythms combined with a witty story of comic sexual confusion between gods and mortals. It was first seen in 1651 and now becomes the first Cavalli opera ever to be performed by The Royal Opera. The music alone makes this essential for opera fans, especially with a fine cast of singers under the acclaimed conductor Ivor Bolton, here with The Monteverdi Continuo Ensemble and members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. David Alden’s production – visually arresting in its brilliantly coloured sets and costumes – has already been rapturously received in Munich, and comes with a wonderfully modern twist for what Alden describes as a ‘riotous sex-comedy production of a riotous sex comedy’. The virginal nymph Calisto resists all amorous advances from the god Jove, even when he’s disguised as the chaste goddess Diana (Jove’s wife Juno is not impressed with this); but Diana herself is illicitly in love with a shepherd, and Calisto discovers yet more suitors to spurn. Greek gods and mortals create comic chaos in a world driven by lust and love. Classical characters meet classic opera!


The present theatre was built in 1858. During World War II it was used as a dance hall but after the war the decision was made to establish the Royal Opera House as the permanent year-round home of the opera and ballet companies now known as the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The ballet company reopened the building on 20 February 1946 with The Sleeping Beauty. The two companies combined for Purcell's The Fairy Queen that December, and on 14 January 1947, Covent Garden Opera Company gave its first complete opera performance, Bizet's Carmen.

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Nearest Rail: Charing Cross

Nearest Tube: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line)