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David Bates

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Alice Coote

Dido

Tenor

James Newby

Aeneas

Gemma Summerfield

Belinda

Mezzo-soprano

Nardus Williams

Second woman

Madeleine Shaw

Sorceress

Tim Mead

Spirit

Nicky Spence

First sailor

Martha McLorinan

Second witch

Helen Charlston

First witch

Luke Cartwright

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Owen Morris

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Prom 7: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 7: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas: Dido and Aeneas Purcell

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Dido and Aeneas

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Troy has fallen, and the Trojan hero Aeneas and his band of refugees seek safety with Queen Dido of Carthage. But as Dido’s compassion deepens into love, dark forces plot against her happiness – and Destiny has little patience with a mere human heart. Henry Purcell turned a classical tragedy into what might be the first truly great opera in the English language: composed for a London audience in the late 17th century and still as moving in the 21st. Alice Coote is the tragic Queen who sings her famous lament, and following his Proms debut last year, David Bates returns to direct his innovative period-instrument ensemble La Nuova Musica.

Prom 7: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, From (2022/2022), Conductor David Bates, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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