Dido and Aeneas by The Yale Baroque Opera Project

In an opera first performed at an English girl's school in 1689 (and maybe earlier at Charles II’s court), composer Henry Purcell and librettist Nahum Tate retell Virgil's love story of Dido, queen of Carthage, and the Trojan hero Aeneas. A new prologue by directors Grant Herreid and Toni Dorfman, with music by Purcell and Francesco Cavalli, recounts Aeneas' escape from the ruins of Troy, the Trojans' sea voyage across the Mediterranean toward Italy, their
shipwreck on the Carthaginian coast, and their gracious, poignant welcome by Dido and her ladies. Seventeen undergraduate singers, accompanied by a band of period instruments led by Herreid, bring the extraordinary music of Dido and Aeneas to life. Two performances only.

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