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Giasone| Opera by Pietro Cavalli (libretto by G A Cicognini), after the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts; it was first produced at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice, Italy, probably on 5 January 1649. It tells how Jason gets the golden fleece and falls in love with Medea, but in the end returns to his first love, Hypsipyle. |
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| These days, like most of Cavalli's output, it is rarely staged, but a new production of Giasone by the Early Opera Company is the centrepiece of Iford's summer season. Others explore performances by Glenn Gould, the film Dancer in the Dark, Cavalli's Il Giasone, "Blind Tom" Wiggins, mental illness and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and concepts of the normal body in the music of Schoenberg and Webern. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That experience has ranged from the COC Ensemble productions of Sartorio's Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2002) and Cavalli's Giasone (the work's Canadian premiere, in 1998), to a stint overseeing Handel's Semele for University of Toronto's Opera Division in 2004, a number of productions for the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus and his current role as dramaturge for Pacific Opera Victoria's new opera-development program. |
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