The seventeenth-century works of Francisco Cavalli may be easier for modern audiences to accept.
An opera revolving around chastity vows, adultery, slut-shaming, lesbianism, transvestism and much more!
Gotham Chamber Opera stumbled so badly Friday night with Francesco Cavalli’s 1668 Eliogabalo at The Box, it was hard to know whether to feel sad or angry—or both.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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