New Opera: Errollyn Wallen
01/06/21 11:47 Filed in: wereldpremière
The story of Dido and Aeneas didn’t end with Dido’s death. Errollyn Wallen takes the story forward, interweaving a full performance of Purcell’s great tragedy with her imaginative new partner-piece. The title: Dido's Ghost
‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate' sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t quite as easy as that, and some memories have a destiny of their own.
Set several years after the Carthaginian queen’s death, Dido’s Ghost finds Dido’s sister Anna abandoned on the shores of Aeneas’s new kingdom, igniting a murderous
jealously in Aeneas’s wife Lavinia – and as events play out, its characters confront a past that refuses to fade.
Errollyn Wallen’s new opera, based on a tale by Roman poet Ovid, embraces and complements Purcell’s original, which is performed in its entirety as the centrepiece of a drama that is both old and new. Performed by the period instruments of the Dunedin Consort and live-streamed from our Hall, past blurs into present and
memory becomes emotion in this ambitious and poignant new commission.
Join the online performance on Sunday June 6, 2021 at 20:00 LIVE from the Barbican in London!
‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate' sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t quite as easy as that, and some memories have a destiny of their own.
Set several years after the Carthaginian queen’s death, Dido’s Ghost finds Dido’s sister Anna abandoned on the shores of Aeneas’s new kingdom, igniting a murderous
jealously in Aeneas’s wife Lavinia – and as events play out, its characters confront a past that refuses to fade.
Errollyn Wallen’s new opera, based on a tale by Roman poet Ovid, embraces and complements Purcell’s original, which is performed in its entirety as the centrepiece of a drama that is both old and new. Performed by the period instruments of the Dunedin Consort and live-streamed from our Hall, past blurs into present and
memory becomes emotion in this ambitious and poignant new commission.
Join the online performance on Sunday June 6, 2021 at 20:00 LIVE from the Barbican in London!
