(Photo Credit: Valentina Sadiul)

Ars Minerva is set to present the modern world premiere of the 1680 opera “Ermelinda” at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, California.

The performances, set for Nov. 22-24, will feature Sara Couldon, Justin Montigne, Nikola Printz, Kindra Scharich, and Deborah Rosengaus. The production will be directed by Céline Ricci, who is the company’s Executive Artistic Director. Jory Vinkour will conduct the work.

“’Ermelinda’ continues in a line of Baroque masterpieces featuring powerful women,” said Ricci in a press release. “Since its inception in 2013, Ars Minerva has chosen to revive operas whose central figures are female: Cleopatra, Amazon warriors, Circe, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra, and now Ermelinda.”

The opera had its original world premiere at the lavish country estate of Marco Contarini, who commissioned the work from Domenico Freschi, the opera’s composer.

Ars Minerva was founded in 2013 and has been involved in reviving long-lost works such as “La Cleopatra,” “La Circe,” “Ifigenia in Aulide,” and “The Amazons of the Fortunate Isles.”