while the contemporary composer Atsushi Sakai expands the work with new compositions and lends the tragedy a mystical dimension. The Swiss soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis sings the role of Dido.

For legend had it that the fling between Dido and Aeneas finished with a quarrel, after which the former killed herself, cursing Aeneas and his line as she did so, and the latter flounced off to ...