Organization

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Stage director

Sasha Waltz

Choreographer

Conductor

Christopher Moulds

Singer

Soprano

Marie-Claude Chappuis

Dido

Tenor

Nikolay Borchev

Aeneas

Aphrodite Patoulidou

Belinda

Mezzo-soprano

Luciana Mancini

Second woman

Yannis François

Sorceress

James Way

First witch

First sailor

Michael Smallwood

Second witch

Spirit

State Opera Berlin

Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier

Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Orchestra

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Others

Vocalconsort Berlin

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Forum am Schlosspark

Dido and Aeneas

Ludwigsburg

Germany

Public

Approved

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

Dido and Aeneas« begins with a jump into the water. Henry Purcell's underlying musical theatre condenses the heroic epic into a few plot elements: the gods accuse the Carthaginian queen and the Trojan prince of oblivion of duty and sabotage their love. Just united, the couple has to separate again; a human tragedy takes its course. When Aeneas leaves the Carthaginian queen Dido, she breathes out her life and love in her lamento. In the opulent production by Sasha Waltz & Guests together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Vocalconsort Berlin, dance and opera merge into a single art form. A production by Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in co-production with the Staatsoper Unter den

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer