Organization

Admin

Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Others

Il Pomo d'Oro

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Singer

Soprano

Joyce DiDonato

Dido

Tenor

Andrew Staples

Aeneas

Fatma Said

Belinda

Mezzo-soprano

Beth Taylor

Sorceress

Hugh Cutting

Spirit

Carlotta Colombo Filia

Second woman

Massimo Altieri

First sailor

Alena Dantcheva

First witch

Anna Piroli

Second witch

Baritone

Jephte

English

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Joyce Didonato / Fatma Said / Andrew Staples

Hamburg

Germany

Elbphilharmonie

Grosser Saal

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Joyce Didonato / Fatma Said / Andrew Staples: Jephte Carissimi (+1 More)

Public

Private

Jephtha

Dido and Aeneas

Simon Samuel

Approved

A LEGENDARY OPERA WITH A LEGENDARY LINE-UP
Henry Purcell’s »Dido and Aeneas« is incredibly popular, and that not only among die-hard Baroque fans. With a star line-up including Joyce DiDonato, Andrew Staples and Fatma Said accompanied by the award-winning Italian Baroque orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro, we have all the ingredients for a magical and memorable evening.

In this compact, one-hour opera, Purcell narrates a tragic – and classically operatic – love story, breaking a number of the musical conventions of his time in the process. This pioneering quality is one of the reasons Purcell’s only opera has remained popular to this day.

Before the interval, there is an opportunity to hear Giacomo Carissimi’s »Historia di Jephte«. Carissimi took the harrowing Biblical story of Jephthah, who sacrifices his own daughter out of faithfulness to God, and turned it into music full of intense Baroque emotions.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Co-Producer