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LEN POWER reviews These Precious Hours, Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas Reimagined, a concert performance by Canberra Qwire and the ...
How melismatic roles changed audiences”Christ Church, HenleyFriday, June 13OPERA Prelude’s latest lecture recital delivered ...
The aria "Thy hand Belinda.." (known popularly as Dido's Lament) by Joyce Di Donato, from the recording 'War and Peace: Harmony Through Music,' Erato 2016 ...
She sang in this film but they cut that scene. We had her sing Dido’s Lament (the closing aria from Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas) very quietly and that was really nice.
And then for Dean, there’s a recording of Jeff Buckley singing Dido’s Lament. He’s just in a church and someone captured it – it’s up on YouTube. And it’s just so haunting.” ...
Seth Hobi was a charming and martial Aeneas, and his final back-and-forth with Dido was particularly heart-rending. Grace Parry Hancock was splendid, and her rendition of “Dido’s Lament” brought the ...
There are a couple things you need to know about the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, whose sensational reputation precedes her. First, at 6-foot-2, she’s very tall. She also has an enormous voice, ...
I’m tempted to say that her “Vissi d’arte” was a cousin of Dido’s Lament. Regardless, it worked. In Acts II and III, Radvanovsky poured out operatic drama. She sang with tremendous intensity, as if ...
But Dido really didn’t need to kill herself. She was better off on her own. And humanity need not scream. AI is made of us. We can make it safe so long as we remember.
Company regular Coleen Nicoll got the tale off to a confident start as Dido’s handmaiden Belinda and Douglas himself sings the Sailor, whose brief, lighter tenor aria used the whole space, and ...
Performed by a combination of professional and amateur singers in a mixture of Scots and Gaelic, this production from the Scots Opera Project provided some memorable moments, writes Ken Walton ...
Dido and Aeneas brings Opera Queensland singers and Circa acrobats together on stage again after the success of their 2019 collaboration Orpheus and Eurydice. David Kelly Aeneas (Sebastian ...