Document Series #11 Nour Mobarakâs Dafne Phono is an adaptation of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini in 1598. Drawing on the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovidâs Metamorphosesâa story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformationâMobarakâs multimedia and multispecies reimagining splinters the operaâs Italian libretto. Alongside English and Greek versions, it is translated into some of the worldâs most phonetically complex languagesâAbkhaz, San Juan Quiahije Eastern Chatino, Silbo Gomero, and !Xoonâand Ovidâs...