Messalina with Ars Minerva
Sun, Nov 21
|ODC Dance
The role of Tergisto
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2021, 2:30 PM
ODC Dance, 351 Shotwell St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the Event
ARS MINERVA PRESENTS
MESSALINA
An opera composed by Carlo Pallavicino in 1679 - Libretto by Francesco Maria Piccioli. A sex farce with teeth. Clever, lecherous Messalina turns the tables several times on the gullible Emperor Claudius, who is hardly innocent himself. Meanwhile two other couples suffer their own romantic vicissitudes. Furtive assignations, frustrated trysts, kidnappings, betrayals, sudden recognitions, a heroine and a hero both in drag, and a plot as convoluted as only 17th-century Venetian opera can put together, all lead to a reconciliation that will last only as long as Messalina can keep pulling the wool over Claudius’ eyes.
The opera, will be fully staged and sung in Italian with English supertitles
Performance length: 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 20 minutes intermission.