Sébastien Daucé has totally rethought the score of La Calisto, with thirty-five instrumentalists instead of the original six who played at the opera’s premiere in Venice in 1651. Under his lively and flexible musical direction, alert to the tiniest nuances, the Ensemble Correspondances performs absolute wonders.’ Le Monde, July 2025. Today, La Calisto is definitely Cavalli’s most frequently performed and best known opera. Despite its turbulent premiere, and its subsequent fate of undeserved obscurity during the next three centuries, it is one of the works that superbly illustrate the sheer genius of Cavalli, uncontestedly the most iconic figure of the tumultuous musical life of Venice during the Seicento.