Mark Twain famously said "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." Henry Purcell's mini-masterpiece Dido and Aeneas distills all the drama and power usually found in a standard-length opera into a taut, fast moving and ultimately devastatingly powerful 60 minutes, along the way taking in a love story, pirates, sorcery and drunken sailors, all painted in vivid musical detail.
Program:
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
John Butt, conductor
Nicole Heaston, Dido
Matthew Brook, Aeneas
Nardus Williams, Belinda
Allison Cook, Sorceress
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, chorale director
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
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Program:
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
John Butt, conductor
Nicole Heaston, Dido
Matthew Brook, Aeneas
Nardus Williams, Belinda
Allison Cook, Sorceress
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, chorale director
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
Mark Twain famously said "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." Henry Purcell's mini-masterpiece Dido and Aeneas distills all the drama and power usually found in a standard-length opera into a taut, fast moving and ultimately devastatingly powerful 60 minutes, along the way taking in a love story, pirates, sorcery and drunken sailors, all painted in vivid musical detail.
Program:
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
John Butt, conductor
Nicole Heaston, Dido
Matthew Brook, Aeneas
Nardus Williams, Belinda
Allison Cook, Sorceress
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, chorale director
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
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Program:
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
John Butt, conductor
Nicole Heaston, Dido
Matthew Brook, Aeneas
Nardus Williams, Belinda
Allison Cook, Sorceress
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, chorale director
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
show less
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