Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, Fri 14 Oct 2005, From (2005/2006), Directed by Wouter Van Looy, Conductor Jan Van Outryve, YO Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

Muziektheater Transparant and Theater FroeFroe present a music theater poem full of passion and fate, fear and mad hope. Beautiful is the maiden to comfort her mother, mourning the lost man. Hope grows with the arrival of a new hero with elephant screams and heroic macho sweat. Cruel are the divine nymphomaniacs who impose their fate on the passionate human soul. The choice is devastating for the hero who throws his fate in the balance next to love. The child's world becomes increasingly emptier when nothing remains but its own life itself. Farewell after farewell. Muziektheater Transparant and FroeFroe bring a music theater poem full of passion and fate, fear and mad hope. The story that has been told a thousand times, but will never get boring: the myth of the sad Queen Dido. This time cast in a musical flow with here and there a touch of Purcell and a strong shot of Virgil.