Organization

Festtage Berlin

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Ziad Nehme

First witch

Tenor

First sailor

Musikalische rekonstruktion

Attilio Cremonesi

Soprano

Marie-Claude Chappuis

Dido

Aphrodite Patoulidou

Belinda

Luciana Mancini

Second woman

Nikolay Borchev

Aeneas

Yannis François

Sorceress

Michael Smallwood

Second witch

Spirit

Stage director

Sasha Waltz

Conductor

Christopher Moulds

Lighting designer

Thilo Reuther

Costume designer

Christine Birkle

Set designer

Thomas Schenk

Choreographer

MUSICAL RECONSTRUCTION

State Opera Berlin

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Vocalconsort Berlin

Orchestra

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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Dido and Aeneas

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

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Dido & AeneasOpera in three acts and one prologueText by Nahum Tate after the 4th chant by Aeneis by VergilMusic by Henry PurcellChoreography by Sasha WaltzW...

Dido & Aeneas Opera in three acts and one prologue Text by Nahum Tate after the 4th chant by Aeneis by Vergil Music by Henry Purcell Choreography by Sasha Waltz World Premiere 29.01.2005 Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg Henry Purcell's music tells about the Carthaginian Queen Dido and the Trojan prince Aeneas, whose love is tragically prevented by the looming enmity of their two kingdoms. As the first of the modern interpreters of this opera, Sasha Waltz developed a choreographic work from its multi-layered emotional world, which incorporates singing into its dance processes and thus merges dance and opera into a single art form. From August 2019, Sasha Waltz's first choreographic opera will return to Berlin with seven top-class new vocalists:https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/v...

Henry Purcell’s music tells the story of the Carthaginian Queen Dido and the Trojan Prince Aeneas whose love is tragically obstructed by the arising animosity between the empires they represent. As the first of this opera’s modern interpreters, Sasha Waltz rendered its multi-layered emotional world into a choreography which involves the vocalists as equal participants and thus merges dance and opera into one single artform. Enriched by seven new top-class vocalists, Sasha Waltz’s first choreographic opera returns to Berlin: https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en/v...

Berlin Vocalconsort Berlin A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in co-production with Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Opéra National de Montpellier. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. A Film by Peter Schönhofer Production by ZDF and ARTE Available on DVD Trailer: Stéphan Talneau

Dido & Aeneas - Henry Purcell / Sasha Waltz

Carthage, in mythical times. The hero Aeneas, who fled from the burning Troy and reached North Africa with his ships across the Mediterranean, meets the beautiful Queen Dido. They are filled with love - and yet they do not come together because fate calls. Aeneas moves to Italy to found a new empire there, while the abandoned Dido has no way out.

Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, From (2022/2022), Directed by Sasha Waltz,, Conductor Christopher Moulds, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

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