Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques and Mariame Clément offer a refined version of Cavalli’s opera, reflecting the inconstancy and vicissitudes of Callisto’s myth. 
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As Sébastien Daucé and Jetske Mijnssen prepare the performances of La Calisto, the opera of Cavalli in Aix-en-Provence this summer, Total Baroque Magazine offers you the version created at the Rhine Opera in Strasbourg by Christophe Rousset and Mariame Clément.
The story of the hapless, beautiful Callisto is one of Jupiter’s countless conquests in borrowed guise: of a nymph whom he seduced by assuming the appearance of Diane, who was beaten by his jealous wife, and then transformed into a glorious constellation.
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