Jupiter’s Journey to the Earth

Jupiter’s Journey to the Earth is based upon the story of Philemon and Baucis from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Franz Joseph Haydn’s opera Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde was originally written for a marionette theater at the Royal Castle of Esterhazy in the 18th century. In the story, the gods look down upon the Earth and observe mankind’s cruelty towards one another and the world in which they live. At first, they throw storms up...