from Act I of the Italian opera
La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli
Libretto: Giovanni Faustini
Role: Diana, the Virgin Goddess of the hunt
Voice Part: mezzo-soprano
Setting: a parched forest, Pelsgia, Peloponnese
Synopsis: The goddess Diana loves the beautiful young shephard Endimione, but she doesn't want everybody to know this secret feeling, so she suffers and weeps.