Organization

Admin

Barbican Centre

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Singer

Andrew Staples

Jephte

Soprano

Carlotta Colombo

Filia

Others

Il Pomo d'Oro

Chœur Il Pomo d'Oro

Tenor

Aeneas

Mezzo-soprano

Second woman

Joyce DiDonato

Dido

Fatma Said

Belinda

Beth Taylor

Sorceress

Hugh Cutting

Spirit

Massimo Altieri

First sailor

Alena Dantcheva

First witch

Anna Piroli

Second witch

Il Pomo d'Oro, Joyce DiDonato and Fatma Said

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Il Pomo d'Oro, Joyce DiDonato and Fatma Said: Jephte Carissimi (+1 More)

Public

Jephtha

Dido and Aeneas

Ayyappa swamy y

Approved

A sumptuous pairing of Baroque masterpieces featuring an all-star cast conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, with Joyce DiDonato and Andrew Staples as the ill-fated lovers in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Like a 17th-century Good Omens, Carissimi’s Jepthe explores themes of good and evil, hope and sacrifice. Andrew Staples takes the title role before transforming into Aeneas for Purcell’s heartrending opera, which reaches its climax with Joyce DiDinato singing ‘Dido’s Lament’. They are joined by the il Pomo d’Oro ensemble and choir, and by soloists including Fatma Said, Beth Taylor and Hugh Cutting.

Joyce DiDinato is one of the world’s finest opera singers, earning particular praise for her interpretations of Baroque music: ‘definitive … hair-raising intimacy and softness’ (OperaBase). Fatma Said is ‘flawless, radiant … a discovery’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), while Hugh Cutting is the first countertenor both to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and to become a BBC New Generation Artist.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble