Marco da Gagliano's La Dafne | Brighton Early Music Festival

Returning to The Old Market for a fourth year of staging early opera in this intimate venue, Brighton Early Music Festival presents a rare chance to see Marco da Gagliano’s 1608 opera La Dafne, in a new production directed by Thomas Guthrie.

This highly entertaining and delightful work was premiered just one year after Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and like Monteverdi, sets a classical story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The tale of Apollo and Dafne explores enduring themes of love, power and control as boastful Apollo pursues the beautiful nymph Dafne with dramatic consequences amidst the chaos of gods behaving badly.

Featuring a stellar cast of talented young singers and instrumentalists, La Dafne recieves four performances over the weekend of 8 and 9 February 2020.