Organization

Singer

Matthew Brook

Aeneas

Nardus Williams

Belinda

Allison Cook

Lavinia

Henry Waddington

Sorcerer

Stage director

Frederic Wake-Walker

Conductor

John Butt

Isabelle Peters

Dido

Golda Schultz

Anna

Others

Dunedin Consort and Players

Mahogany Opera Group

English

Dido's Ghost

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Edinburgh International Festival

Edinburgh Academy Junior School

Buxton

Buxton Opera House

London

Barbican Centre

Dido's Ghost Wallen

Private

Public

Approved

Allison Cook - Dido’s Ghost -world premier

A new commission from Errollyn Wallen and Wesley Stace
Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate’ sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t always quite so straightforward, and some memories have a destiny of their own. Set several years after the Carthaginian queen’s death, Dido’s Ghost finds Dido’s sister Anna abandoned on the shores of Aeneas’s new kingdom, igniting a murderous jealously in Aeneas’s wife Lavinia – and as events play out, its characters confront a past that refuses to fade.

Co-commissioned by the Barbican, Buxton International Festival, Dunedin Consort and Mahogany Opera, Dido’s Ghost reframes, illuminates and expands Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which is performed in its entirety as a flashback within Wallen’s drama. Performed on period instruments, Dido’s Ghost bridges the gap between worlds, as past blurs into present and memory becomes emotion in this ambitious new commission.

Dido's Ghost by Wallen, From (2021/2021), Directed by Frederic Wake-Walker,, Conductor John Butt, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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