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La Calisto

VenueTheater an der Wien
CalendarWed 16 Sep 2026 - Mon 28 Sep 2026
Synopsis/Details

The world lies in ruins, devastated by an inferno. Jupiter, the supreme god, wishes to supply the Earth with water again. He descends to Earth and, all of a sudden, falls in love with the nymph Callisto. Although she has dedicated herself to the goddess Diana’s cult of chastity, Jupiter is undeterred: taking Diana’s form, he seduces the nymph. Afterwards, when Callisto encounters the real Diana, she is met not with love, but with rejection and anger. Diana, for her part, has lost her heart to the young Endymion, which in turn arouses the jealousy of Pan, the god of shepherds. In the end, Jupiter’s wife Juno puts an end to all these passion-driven goings-on and attempted seductions, and turns her husband’s innocent beloved into a wild bear. Gods, nymphs and mythical creatures are thrown together in Francesco Cavalli’s opera La Calisto. All are under the spell of love and desire, power and violence, and so present a tragicomic portrayal of human passions. The opera, first performed in Venice in 1651, questions not just the moral standards on which social order is based, but also the gender roles they demand. Does Callisto’s transformation into the constellation Ursa Major at the end of the opera represent a break with the divine order or a conquest? Artistic director Stefan Herheim stages this early Baroque opera in collaboration with the lutenist and conductor Christina Pluhar, one of the leading exponents of seventeenth-century music, as comic fairy-tale theatre.

Dramma per musica in three acts and a prologue

Libretto by Giovanni Faustini

In Italian with German and English surtitles

Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

A co-production with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin

Cast

Conductor:

Christina Pluhar

stage director:

Stefan Herheim

stage design:

Silke Bauer

costume design:

Yashi 

light design:

Stefan Herheim

Karl Wiedemann

video design:

Roman Hagenbrock

choreography:

Beate Vollack

dramaturgy:

Kai Weßler

Calisto:

Vera-Lotte Boecker

Giove:

Milan Siljanov

Diana:

Luciana Mancini

Endimione:

Arnaud Gluck

Giunone:

Giuseppina Bridelli

Linfea:

Marcel Beekman

Mercurio:

Renato Dolcini

Satirino:

Jake Arditti

Pane:

Juan Sancho

Silvano:

João Fernandes

 

L’Arpeggiata

Venue
Theater an der Wien

About the Theater an der Wien
 

The New Opera House is not just any theatre, but the one that Emanuel Schikaneder, the all-round genius, actor, impresario with a flair for organization but above all librettist of The Magic Flute, had built in 1801 in Vienna in keeping with the spirit of Mozart.

To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth the Theater an der Wien presents itself as a new opera house from January 2006. As a “season” opera house with productions all the year round the Theater an der Wien carves a new and independent niche in the realm of high-quality culture in Vienna. For twelve months of the year, with one premiere every month, opera will be performed under the “stagione”, or season, system: that means the cast remains unchanged from the first performance to the last one, which guarantees that the very highest international standards are maintained.

The theatre’s modern, accessible approach to music theatre as demonstrated by the works performed, the overall artistic concept Bespielung and the artistes is further underlined by the building itself, its architecture and the vibrancy of its location. The surroundings and materials, the intimate atmosphere and perfect acoustics in the historical theatre prepare the senses to experience beauty. The Theater an der Wien deliberately enters into a symbiotic relationship with its lively surroundings on the Naschmarkt street market and the young cultural scene centred in the Schleifmühl quarter.
 

How to get there


With public transport:
 

We can be reached by public transport: 

U1, U2 und U4 Station Karlsplatz, Exit Secession
Bus 59A Station Bärenmühldurchgang
Bus 57A Station Laimgrubengasse, pedestrians via Laimgrubengasse to Linke Wienzeile

KAMMEROPER:
Fleischmarkt 24, 1010 Wien


We can be reached by public transport:
U1, U4: Station Schwedenplatz
Tram Linie D (bei Ablenukung über Kai), 1, 2: Station Schwedenplatz
Bus 3A (on workdays)

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