Cavalli's 'L'egisto'

The Cockpit
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This event ended on Sunday 13th of June 2021
Admission
Single seat: £41.00
Household/Bubbles of 2 to 4: £33.00 each
*prices include a £1.00 booking fee
Venue Information
Cockpit Theatre
Gateforth Street , NW8 8EH
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Edgware Road (Bakerloo) 0.27 miles

HGO's mission is advancing young singers, and once again they are bringing opera back to London with two fabulous casts in a specially-commissioned new edition of Francesco Cavalli’s musical fable L’Egisto, fully-staged with baroque orchestra.

The lovers Egisto (a descendant of Apollo) and Clori were abducted by pirates in Delos; Clori was sold in Zakynthos, where the pirates also captured Climene, on the day of her wedding to Lidio. A year later, Egisto and Climene escape to Zakynthos, to find Clori in love with Lidio and also courted by Climene’s brother Hipparco. In the course of 24 hours, dismay, remorse, plans of revenge, madness, and the quarrels and interference of the gods, lead to reconciliation and a happy ending.

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