Fri Dec 18 – Sat Dec 19 · 7pm

Fall Production | Francesco Cavalli "Il Giasone"

by Francesco Cavalli

Longy School of Music · Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall · 27 Garden Street · Cambridge · Cambridge

Fri Dec 18 / Sat Dec 19 · 7pm

Longy's fall production is Cavalli's Il Giasone of 1649, a tragicomic opera loosely drawn from the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and among the most performed operas of the seventeenth century. Cavalli was Monteverdi's pupil and later his successor at St Mark's in Venice.