Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2022-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra de Reims

Organization

Zanger

Soprano

Chantal Santon Jeffery

Dido

Daphne Touchais

Belinda

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Wall

Second Woman

Tenor

Romain Bockler

Aeneas

First Witch

Second Witch

Sailor

Spirit

Regisseur

Benoît Benichou

Dirigent

Johannes Pramsohler

Licht ontwerper

Caty Olive

Kostuum ontwerper

Alain Blanchot

Set designer

Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy

Choreograaf

Anne Lopez

Dramaturg

Catherine Kollen

Assistant to the Scenography

Lara Hirzel

Musical adaptation

Frédéric Rivoal

the Magician

Opéra de Reims

Orchestra

Ensemble Diderot

Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Engels

Dido and Aeneas -  (Dido en Aeneas)

Reims

Frankrijk

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

Public

Dido en Aeneas

Frans

Approved

Opéra (Londres, 1689) - Musique : Henry Purcell, Texte : Nahum Tate d’après L’Énéide de Virgile  Une création de…

DIDON & ÉNÉE | TEASER

Dido et Aeneas , the first real English opera, composed in 1689 by Henry Purcell after  Virgil 's Aeneid, recounts the passion between the queen of Carthage Dido and the Trojan prince Aeneas, torn between love and duty. Dido, initially hesitant, yields in spite of everything to Aeneas who, deceived by a witch, abandons his beloved. This opera with Shakespearean accents masterfully mixes comedy and tragedy, carried by the delicacy of a story that does not leave a moment of respite. The dramatic tension highlighted by the melodic richness and the significant presence of the choirs give this baroque masterpiece an astonishing emotional power which culminates with the death of Dido.

In a scenography all in tulle inspired by Robert Irwin, the show, served by a beautiful cast, thus plays on opacity and transparency, but also on the blurring of reality and imagination, memory and erasure. Bewitching.

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble

Co-producent