in this clip: Hai-Ting Chinn, Kate Valk, Judson Williams, Ari Fliakos

Francesco Cavalli’s 1641 opera, with libretto by Francesco Busenello, collides with Mario Bava’s cult movie Terrore nello spazio (1965) in a war-like symbiosis, dropping Aeneas’ ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape and forming a synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moonlanding sci-fi.

LA DIDONE photo © Paula Court