{"id":4360,"date":"2016-11-11T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T09:42:43","slug":"a-free-ticket-to-cavalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/11\/11\/a-free-ticket-to-cavalli\/","title":{"rendered":"a free ticket to Cavalli"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won a pair of tickets to Cavalli’s La Calisto<\/a><\/i> performed by English Touring Opera at Bath’s Theatre Royal, thanks to a competition in the Bath Chronicle<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Cavalli has been chosen before<\/a> by this company. La Calisto<\/i> is his best-known work; it has plenty of substantial roles (Juno’s and Diana’s are as substantial as Calisto’s) and lively intertwined plot and subplots. It was sung in English but rather as in a silent movie each scene was introduced with the display of a single-sentence description.<\/p>\n

The various parts were all well sung and acted, with Juno being our favourite. And some lovely period sounds from the pit, though the ‘organ’ sounded a bit fake. The production played up the comic side of the plot with ribald gestures (but what do you expect when there’s a satyr around?) contrasting with the rather dry libretto. The Heath Robinson-like set required considerable physical agility from the singers.<\/p>\n

The performance was well attended, and as before I noticed that there is an audience that converges on Bath from miles around when there’s an opera on. Now I think there are few in Bath who know more about Greek mythology than I do, but I realised that I was among some seriously experienced fans of baroque opera, ready to compare performances of Rameau or Handel at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

Bath Chronicle<\/i> review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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