Giasone - Jason - is not the hero one would expect, in this opera by Cavalli. Indeed, his easy morality makes of him, unexpectedly, quite the modern character. Says Mariame Clement, who directed the production.
"People think they know the story, because they think, Medea, Giasone [...] but actually there's much more going on than what we know in mythology. [...] What we tried to do is to recreate a mythology of our own, to have a sort of world that is neither modern nor ancient, that's not contemporary but not historical either... a world of its own."
A brilliant opera, which comedy, tragedy and fantasy are seamlessly interwoven. On the podium, the baroque specialist Federico Maria Sardelli; in the title role, the sensational counter-tenor Christophe Dumaux.