DIDO AND AENEAS Barcelona 2023 Kate Lindsey, Renato Dolcini, Renato Dolcini, Ana Vieira Leite
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Dido and Aeneas
- Composer: Purcell Henry
- Libretto: Nahum Tate Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
- Recorded: June 22, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Kate Lindsey, Renato Dolcini, Renato Dolcini, Ana Vieira Leite, Maud Gnidzaz, Virginie Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Michael Loughlin Smith
- Conductor: William Christie
- Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
- Choreographer: Blanca Li
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, essubs, othersubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in London by the end of 1689. Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works. It was also Purcell’s only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, both in structure and in overall effect.
The influence of Cavalli’s opera Didone is also apparent. Both works use the prologue/three acts format and there are similarities between, for instance, Mercury’s solo in Didone and the solo “Come away fellow sailors” in Purcell’s work.
Quoted from Wikipedia