Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2021-05-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Academy of Music

Artist

Admin

Cantante

Soprano

Julia Portela Piñón

Didone

Direzione d'orchestra

Elizabeth Kenny

Regia

Jack Furness

Costumi

Laura Jane Stanfield

Scenografia

Tenore

Patrick Alexander Keefe

Enea

Mezzosoprano

Giulia Laudano

Seconda donna

Luci

Clare O'Donoghue

Coreografia

Victoria Newlyn

Sophie Sparrow

Belinda

Will Pate

Maga

Josi Ann Ellem

1.Strega

Angharad Rowlands

2.Strega

Nina Korbe

Uno spirito

Clara Orif

soprano

Jack Lee

bass

Royal Academy Opera

Orchestra

Academy Baroque Orchestra

Dido and Aeneas -  (Didone ed Enea)

Londra

Regno Unito

Royal Academy of Music

Public

Didone ed Enea

Approvato

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

Æneas, the Son of Venus and Anchises, having, at the Destruction of Troy, sav’d his Gods, his Father, and son Ascanius, from the Fire, put to Sea with twenty Sail of Ships: and, having been long tost with Tempests, was at last cast upon the shore of Lybia, where queen Dido (flying from the cruelty of Pygmalion, her Brother, who had kill’d her Husband Sichæus) had lately built Carthage. She entertain’d Æneas and his Fleet with great civility, fell passionately in Love with him, and in the end denied him not the last Favours. But Mercury admonishing Æneas to go in search of Italy, (a Kingdom promis’d him by the Gods) he readily prepar’d to Obey…

—John Dryden, headnote introducing ‘Dido to Æneas’ in Ovid’s Epistles Translated by Several Hands (London, 1680).

Virgil told the same story at greater length in the Æneid, Book IV. When Æneas sails for Italy, Dido kills herself, unable to live with the pain of betrayal. Purcell’s librettist, Nahum Tate, blended Shakespeare and Virgil very cleverly, turning the spiteful goddess Juno, implacable enemy of all things Trojan and Æneas in particular, into a Sorceress and Witches who seem to be much more comprehensively malicious – like their counterparts in Macbeth (which Purcell’s contemporaries also knew in an operatic version).

English

Didone ed Enea by Purcell, ven 28 mag 2021, Da (2021/2021), Diretto da Jack Furness,, Direttore d'orchestra Elizabeth Kenny, Royal Academy of Music, Londra, Regno Unito

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