The director and dramaturg is Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir and the music director is Sigurður Halldórsson.

The opera Céphale et Procris by Jacquet de la Guerre is in its entirety over three hours in performance, but the group will perform selected sections and at the same time strive to deliver the story as a whole. The director and dramaturg is Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir and the music director is Sigurður Halldórsson.

The opera Céphale et Procris is a tragedy in five acts with an allegorical preface The libretto, by the French playwright Joseph-Francois Duché de Vancy (1668-1704), is loosely based on elements of the myth of Cephalos and Procris as told in Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, although de Vancy also added several secondary storylines of his own The main legend tells the fate of Greek lovers who are driven to blind revenge by a conspiracy of jealous and loving gods: Céphale accidentally kills Procris, convinced that she is unfaithful to him, and in his infinite grief he takes his own life.

There is some evidence that the opera was written in 1691, or up to four years earlier, that is to say when Jacquet de la Guerre was between the ages of 22 and 26. The opera was first staged by the Paris Opera on the stage of Académie Royale de Musique in Théâtre du Palais-Royal on March 17, 1694. There are theories that the delay in the production could be caused by Lully's monopoly position in an opera performance at the court of Louis XIV. I.e. that Céphale et Procris was therefore staged after Lully's monopoly expired.

(Source: Ensemble OrQuesta, East Sussex)