"Amante non è chi cede al furor d'irata Fortuna. Chi teme il dolore amante non è."
He is not a lover who yields to the fury of irate Fortune. He is not a lover who fears pain
On the eve of his historic invasion of Europe, Xerse is distracted by love. The audacious construction of the ship-bridge over the Hellespont provides an undercurrent of anticipation over which play the desperate passions of sibling rivalry, authoritarian high-handedness, political intrigue, and a great reckoning with Fortune. Will the impulsive king of the Persian Empire get what he wants, or what is coming to him?
Brother against brother, sister against sister: it's all in the (disfunctional) family at the University Theater this April, as the Yale Baroque Opera Project mounts its 12th production, Cavalli’s Xerse.
Saturday April 30 + Sunday May 1 at 3pm
University Theater
222 York Street, New Haven.
Free admission – For information and reservations, please visit:http://ybop.yale.edu/ Day of show walk-ups highly encouraged!
