White Skirt Wednesday: Classic Cavalli

[The point in conversation where Juno needs a cold drink (and we do, too): Giunone (Raffaella Milanesi) and Calisto (Elena Tsallagova) having a heart-to-heart on sleeping with goddesses in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017.]

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[Yes, screencaps. Consider yourself warned, but then again, why else are you all here?]

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So you’re just a nymph, skipping through the woods. And, okay, you are daydreaming a little (unless you get interrupted by privileged jerks who proposition you in tandem. Creeps!).
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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About that daydreaming: true, it might involve your boss. Who happens to be be the Goddess of Chastity. #It’sComplicated.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Diana, meanwhile, is kind of swayed by countertenors bringing flowers.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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But, alas: there is chastity in the job description. #GoddessProblems (even if your own personnel is remarkably relaxed about that rule)
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Guy de Mey (Linfea) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Shepherds playing at Pygmalion. What could possibly go wrong?
[Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Okay, he apparently needs glasses. – Hello? Over here?! – But he is cute otherwise.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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I won’t tell if you won’t. He started it!
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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In an evening where everybody gets a space for their kink, there’s also room for “Threesomes with Statues”.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Meanwhile, you’re still daydreaming in the woods.
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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…about how perhaps Diana will finally find the secret stash of poetry you’ve written about her (you regret nothing) and will like it.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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…about how perhaps…
Well.
(Also: hello, Diana, but saying ‘No!’ looks different)
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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A cold shower is in order.
#EauGlacée #EauTrèsGaïe
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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In other news, Cavalli has also written a Buffy opera, “Le avventure di Spike The Dyke e Cordelia, Regina delle Amazzoni.” Happy Ending pending, but it likely includes a threesome with non-human creatures (it’s Cavalli, what did you expect?).
[Lawrence Olsworth-Peter (Pane), Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Jaroslaw Kitala (Silvano) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Someone may end up dating a vampire, but it is a nice touch that gender roles have clearly been reversed here in regards to who gets to save whom. D’awww.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Meanwhile, you’re still daydreaming and pining away—
*brain of blogger: loading*
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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…though perhaps it would be time to grab the Goddess by the tunic, so to speak, and state your intentions?
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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If at first she doesn’t get it… Well, maybe she isn’t the *quickiest* of Goddesses, but it’s not as if you are in this for a speed race.
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Hands-on approach.
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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…Hands-on Approach, Advanced Level.
(also, Diana: saying ‘No!’ still looks different!)
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Well, if she doesn’t get it NOW, then you’re just as well off with the marble version of her.
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Let me translate the flowery Faustini prose as “Will pick you up at 8 to skip dinner.”
[Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) and Vivica Genaux (Diana), in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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“Anima mia”: when the Goddess picks you up for a date in Style.
(we’ll simply pretend that this story had a happy ending. In case of doubt: daydreaming. You’re good at that.)
Elena Tsallagova (Calisto), Vivica Genaux (Diana), Nikolay Borchev (Mercurio) and Raffaella Milanesi (Giunone) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Meanwhile: When Dad Is A Tattletale And Other Cinzian Woes: “Diana did whoooo whaaaaa…..?!”
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Filippo Mineccia (Endimione) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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Jove, meanwhile, is found out by the Mrs. (true OTP of the evening: Cigar/Genaux’s faces) Though who would scowl if this Giunone were their Mrs.? A Mrs. who might, however, be about to file for a divorce…
[Vivica Genaux (Diana) and Raffaella Milanesi (Giunone) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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“And then she did that thing with… and I… ”
*gulp*
(Juno, reconsidering heteronormativity. Calisto, about to be presented with a toaster oven).
[Raffaella Milanesi (Giunone) and Elena Tsallagova (Calisto) in Cavalli’s “La Calisto”, Strasbourg 2017]

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