...If new is what you're after, that at least is on offer in NTB's version of Dido ... Thomas Meglioranza gives a thoughtful and sympathetic performance that sends a breath of fresh air blowing gently through the opera. His soft-grained voice and confiding manner suggest from the start a soft-hearted hero who really could win the heart of a young widowed queen...
...under the baton of Predrag Gosta this chamber ensemble sounded terrific.
“the insinuating, sinister and yet rather attractive Arnalta and Lucano (really marvellously sung by high tenor Kieran White).”
As Nerone, the warm-voiced Julia Portela Piñón vividly portrays the lustful ruler with a heart of ice