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Fresh from his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Renee Fleming in Handel’s Rodelinda, Harry Bicket, renowned interpreter of Baroque repertoire, is conducting Francesco Cavalli’s comic opera Giasone ...

English-born conductor Harry Bicket has had plenty of experience with Baroque music, especially Baroque opera. And he conducted the U.S. premiere of Cavalli’s “Giasone” at South Carolina’s Spoleto ...

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the second production of their 2010 Spring Festival Season - Cavalli's Jason (Giasone) on April 24, 28, 30 and May 2 at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park. This ...

On September 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 at 7:00 PM, Opera Omnia returns to Le Poisson Rouge to present Francesco Cavalli's Giasone, fully staged, in an English edition by Paul C. Echols (originally prepared ...

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This was a rare and welcome opportunity to hear what the musicologist Ellen Rosand describes as “arguably the most successful opera of the seventeenth century”. Cavalli’s Jason (Giasone) was first ...