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“Dido and Aeneas ... singers’ moves, most notably sophomore Alisha Rosa’s wicked moves as the sorceress. “We did some choreography for ‘Don Giovanni’ earlier in the season, but this ...
As the opera opens, Dido, tortured by passion, is assured by her confidante Belinda that Aeneas does return her ... Norman and Janet Baker, and pop singers such as Annie Lennox and Jeff ...
In 1989, he made a version a Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” He placed the singers and chorus in the pit and choreographed the 55-minute opera as a ... has a male partner, the next a female.
Co-choreographing the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra’s upcoming production of Henry Purcell’s ”Dido and Aeneas ... s opera, the entire stage was reserved for the dancers, with the singers ...
I was pleasantly surprised by the absolute delight and admiration I felt while watching the Scots Opera Project perform their award-winning reinvention of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Dido and Aeneas brings Opera Queensland singers and Circa acrobats together on stage again after the success of their 2019 collaboration Orpheus and Eurydice.Credit: David Kelly Aeneas (Sebastian ...
The University of Arizona School of Music Opera Theater will perform the chamber opera “Dido and Aeneas” on Nov. 16-19 at Crowder Hall. The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and ...
Somerset Opera's production of Dido and Aeneas at the Museum of Somerset | Photo credit: Edward J Felton First up, this was performed on a sort of catwalk (audience either side) in the narrowish main ...
Written as an opera by Henry Purcell, in the Baroque period, Dido and Aeneas, even after 300-odd years, remains one of the most-performed English operas. Yet, for anyone unlettered in Western ...
The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote took the role of Dido, moving back ... to be England’s first opera. As Dido’s sister Belinda (played with lucidity and empathy by Gemma Summerfield) encouraged her to be ...
Singaporean arts company T:>Works blends both in a drag version of “Dido and Aeneas,” Henry Purcell's 17th-century cult baroque opera based on Virgil's epic poem “The Aeneid.” Starring ...
Blessed by warm sunny weather, Scots Opera Project’s re-imagining of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a libretto ... and the thirty community singers, imaginatively. The chorus, which provided ...