English Touring Opera (ETO)

Venice, the birthplace of opera as we now know it, was a city of fabulous wealth, learning, trade and sensuality. The most fantastic of all its ‘follies’, the marriage of poetry, music and art, is opera.

The Olivier Award-winning English Touring opera returns to Bath for its annual visit with two of the most entertaining works of all.

Cavalli’s La Calisto irreverently charts the relations between gods, men and women, in a score so rich and heady it must have drawn as many blushes as gasps when first heard.

The infatuation of Jove (George Humphreys) with the lovely Calisto (Paula Sides) and the unlikely attraction of virgin Diana (Catherine Carby) to the handsome youth Endymion (Tai oney) entangle them in love wars as comical as they are dangerous.

ETO’s new production is conducted and directed by Timothy Nelson, and features a collection of continuo instruments.

New production, sung in English.