Our production for 2007 was La Calisto by Cavalli

email from Catherine Bott, our patron

see review from Sundial

see unpublished review from RT Times

see some photos

La Calisto was premiered on November 28th 1651 at The Teatro San Apollinare in Venice. Cavali wrote it as bold entertainment for the public theatres. It is a shameless crowd pleaser- a brazen mix of comedy and drama, spiced with gender bending and bawdy situations.The story is based on the constellation myth from Ovid’s metamorphosis. According to Ovid, Callisto is a wood nymph ”not one who spent her time at the loom, but one of Diana’s warriors, carrying in her hand a javelin or bow ”. She is seduced by Jove disguised as Diana. The deception is discovered by Jove’s wife Juno who turns Callisto into a bear. Jove in his Mercy places her beyond Juno’s jealousy, in the heavens as the constellation Ursa Major.

Click on the bear to see the poster

Performances were Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 and Friday 19 October 2007 at Isleworth Public Hall

Click here to see the Programme.

Cast List:

Calisto	Janet Oates
Destiny	Emilie Taride
Diana	Harriet Fraser
Echo	Katie Pinney
Endymion	Suzie Modak
Eternity	Ingrid Fraser
Jove	John Cobb
Juno	Jacqui Silverstone
Linfea	Sally Pinney
Mercury	Steve Harrison
Nature	Neville Bayross
Pan	Cedric Lee
Satirino	Rosalind Fuller
Sylvano	Philip Johnson

 

Photos from this year's production of La Calisto:

	Thanks to June and Alan for these photos

 

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