Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2024-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Château de Versailles

Organization

Admin

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Regie

Charles di Meglio

Dirigat

Stéphane Fuget

Sopran

Flore Royer

Dido

Sarah Charles

Belinda

Tenor

Halidou Nombre

Äneas

Mezzosopran

Pauline Gaillard

Erste Hexe

Clarisse Dalles

Zweite Hexe

Attila Varga-Tóth

Ein Seemann

Franciana Nogues

Ein Geist

Louise Rouleau

Zweite Frau

Orchestra

Académie de l’Opéra Royal

Others

Englisch

Dido and Aeneas -  (Dido und Aeneas)

Versailles

Frankreich

Château de Versailles

Public

Private

Dido und Aeneas

Saurav Kumar

Genehmigt

Founded in 2023, the Académie de l’Opéra Royal aims to train and support young performers, singers and instrumentalists specialising in baroque music and in particular the specific style of French 17th- and 18th-century music. Masterclasses and work experience are offered, led by top artists who regularly perform at Versailles. For this first year group, a “royal” version of Purcell’s famous Dido and Aeneas will be staged in the Hall of Mirrors, in order to hear these young artists at their very best!

Few baroque operas have aroused such emotion throughout the centuries. Premièred by Purcell in 1689, this utter masterpiece of English music tells the story of the doomed love affair between Aeneas, a survivor of Troy and future founder of Rome, and Dido, Queen of Carthage. Out of this ancient myth pours the harrowing voice of a broken heart, as in the sublime final lamento “When I am laid”, so well known today. Dido and Aeneas is a brief and direct yet astonishingly diverse opera, combining sailors and pastors, sorceresses and furies, comedy and tragedy. The Death of Dido will forever be remembered as a pinnacle of baroque music, but come and listen to its terrible wizardry...

Proceeds from this concert go to the Académie de l’Opéra Royal

English

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Besetzung

Ensemble