Organization

Singer

Soprano

Céline Akcag

Dido

Franka Kraneis

Belinda

Tenor

Karl Schneider

Aeneas

Mezzo-soprano

Leandro Marziotte

Sorceress

Sarah Hanikel

Second witch

Alexander Tremmel

First sailor

Stage director

Olaf Schmidt

Conductor

Thomas Dorsch

Costume designer

Gesa Koepe

Set designer

Barbara Bloch

Choreographer

Theater Lüneburg

Others

Damen und Herren des Hauschores

Orchestra

Lüneburger Symphoniker

the ladies and gentlemen of the house choir

English

Dido and Aeneas

Lüneburg

Germany

Public

German

Approved

Carthage, in mythical times. Aeneas, who fled from the burning Troy and reached North Africa with his ships across the Mediterranean, meets the beautiful Queen Dido. The two love each other, but fate calls Aeneas to Italy to found a new empire there. Dido remains abandoned and broken.

For some, Purcell's music is one of the most beautiful, most dramatic, most timeless compositions of the Baroque - to others it is hardly known. Now his only “real” opera is coming to the stage of the Lüneburg Theater for the first time. Purcell, born 16 years before Bach and Handel, wrote music full of passions, joy, hardships and worries - and thus points the way to Mozart. Dido's famous lament, with which she ends her life, proves Purcell's extraordinary power of expression to open up a whole world with just a few tones. But his ability to write dance sets and choirs of great melodic abundance and rhythmic power also makes this work an ideal project for a renewed collaboration between ballet and opera ensemble.

Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, From (2022/2022), Directed by Olaf Schmidt,, Conductor Thomas Dorsch, Theater Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

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