Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2020-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro La Fenice

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Organization

Soprano

Giuseppina Bridelli

Dido

Michela Antenucci

Belinda

Zanger

Martina Licari

Une suivante

Mezzo-soprano

Valeria Girardello

Sorceress

Lara Lagni

First Witch

Chiara Brunello

Second Witch

Matteo Roma

Mercurio

Tenor

Sailor

Antonio Poli

Aeneas

Dirigent

Tito Ceccherini

Regisseur

Giovanni di Cicco

Set designer

Massimo Checchetto

Kostuum ontwerper

Carlos Tieppo

Licht ontwerper

Fabio Barettin

Choreograaf

Koor meester

Claudio Marino Moretti

Teatro La Fenice

Others

Coro del Teatro La Fenice

Orchestra

Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice

Dido and Aeneas -  (Dido en Aeneas)

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Dido en Aeneas

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Dido and Aeneas is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688,and had been performed at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in London by the end of 1689.Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683.The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid.It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works.It was also Purcell’s only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, both in structure and in overall effect.

The influence of Cavalli’s opera Didone is also apparent. Both works use the prologue/three acts format and there are similarities between, for instance, Mercury’s solo in Didone and the solo “Come away fellow sailors” in Purcell’s work.

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