Organization

Singer

Soprano

Marie-Claude Chappuis

Dido

Emőke Baráth

Belinda

Mezzo-soprano

Marie Lys

Second woman

Tenor

Jarrett Ott

Aeneas

First witch

Second witch

First sailor

Conductor

Emmanuelle Haïm

Lighting designer

Giacomo Gorini

Costume designer

Anne-Catherine Kunz

Set designer

Justine Bougerol

Dramaturge

Clara Pons

Assistant to the Musical Direction

Atsushi Sakaï

Spirit

Stage director

Franck Chartier

Peeping Tom

Le Concert d'Astrée

Opéra de Lille

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Others

Teatru Astra Opera Chorus

English

Dido and Aeneas

Luxembourg

Germany

Lille

France

Public

French

Approved

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

Franck Chartier, metteur en scène, présente "Didon et Énée" de Purcell à l'Opéra de Lille du 3 au 10 décembre 2021.

Didon et Énée par Franck Chartier / Peeping Tom

Libretto by Nahum Tate

Eighteen years after the publication of her recording of Purcell's masterpiece (Virgin classics), here is again Emmanuelle Haïm at the baton of the Concert d'Astrée for an interpretation of Dido and Aeneas, in an innovative production by its audacious staging and the bias of a real immersion in the psyche of Dido.

Purcell's only opera, composed of a succession of short numbers, develops in a minimalist form the drama of Virgil – a drama that the librettist Nahum Tate had already simplified. However, if the original speech goes to the essential by its purity and its great expressiveness, the introduction of musical interludes, composed by the faithful collaborator of Emmanuelle Haïm Atsushi Sakaï, allows a dive into the torments of a Dido dissociated between her love for Aeneas and another inner voice, evil, which opposes this love and which is embodied by the witch. Franck Chartier and his company Peeping Tom offer their first opera production, where the horizon tightens like a vice around a Dido delivered to her schizophrenia. The dancers, like so many spirits sometimes opposing, sometimes helping,

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Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer