Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2020-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro La Fenice

Admin

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Giuseppina Bridelli

Dido

Michela Antenucci

Belinda

Martina Licari

Une suivante

Mezzo-soprano

Valeria Girardello

Sorceress

Lara Lagni

First witch

Chiara Brunello

Second witch

Matteo Roma

Mercurio

Tenor

First sailor

Antonio Poli

Aeneas

Conductor

Tito Ceccherini

Stage director

Giovanni di Cicco

Set designer

Massimo Checchetto

Costume designer

Carlos Tieppo

Lighting designer

Fabio Barettin

Choreographer

Chorus master

Claudio Marino Moretti

Teatro La Fenice

Others

Coro del Teatro La Fenice

Orchestra

Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice

Dido and Aeneas

Venice

Italy

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Countertenor

Bass

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Dido and Aeneas is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688,and had been performed at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in London by the end of 1689.Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683.The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid.It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works.It was also Purcell’s only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, both in structure and in overall effect.

The influence of Cavalli’s opera Didone is also apparent. Both works use the prologue/three acts format and there are similarities between, for instance, Mercury’s solo in Didone and the solo “Come away fellow sailors” in Purcell’s work.

English

Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, From (2020/2020), Directed by Giovanni di Cicco,, Conductor Tito Ceccherini, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy

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