The Loves of Apollo & Dafne by Cavalli

Opera

Love is never a walk in the park. 

But when Greek gods, river nymphs and mortals burning with passion all meet in one, things are bound to get hot.

In this sensual pastoral fable, drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, worlds collide: heaven meets earth and music becomes magic. Apollo loves Dafne, Dafne loves her space. Titone loves Aurora, Aurora’s got her eye on Cefalo. Amore loves making mischief with them all.  Hearts yearn as the sun and moon turn. Cavalli lets his creative genius soar, offering a new vision of opera: an inspired marriage of words and music that reveals the inmost thoughts and feelings of gods and mortals alike. In its bold passion, its flowing eloquence and its laments of exquisite beauty, this is a masterwork of the Italian baroque.

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• Program

  The Loves of Apollo & Dafne (1640)

  Music by Francesco Cavalli

  Lyrics by Giovanni Francesco Busenello

  Sung in Italian with English surtitles

• Artists

  Alexandra Oomens

  Dafne / Aurora / Procri

  Max Riebl

  Apollo / Titone / Cirilla / Cefalo

  Stacy Alleaume

  Amore / Itaton / Eco / Procris

  Jacqueline Dark

  Morfeo / Venere / Filena / Musa

  David Hidden

  Sonno / Alfesibeo / Pan

  Andrew O’Connor

  Panto / Giove / Peneo

   

  Orchestra of the Antipodes

  Erin Helyard

  Conductor and Keyboards

  Mitchell Butel

  Director