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Francesco Cavalli's Venetian baroque opera La Calisto, staged by Stefan Herheim, plays at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin as part of Barocktage 2026.
Love throws gods, nature spirits and humans alike into confusion, told here as baroque science fiction. Christina Pluhar directs L'Arpeggiata and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, with Vera-Lotte Boecker as Calisto and Milan Siljanov as Giove.
Sung in Italian with German and English surtitles, about 3 h 15 min with one interval. Recommended from age 14; the production uses strobe effects. A talk starts 45 minutes before curtain in the Apollosaal.











