Producer: Teatru Manoel Admission Age: 12+ Venue: Teatru Manoel Price: €20 (€15 for senior citizens and students)
Schedule
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
8pm
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
8pm
Friday, 26 February 2021
8pm
Saturday, 27 February 2021
8pm
Description
Dido and Aeneas is an opera written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.
Dido Francesca Buhagiar
Aeneas Cliff Zammit Stevens
Sorceress Cathy Lawlor
Belinda Nadia Vella
First Witch Francesca Aquilina
Second Witch Analise Mifsud
Second Woman Alison Gatt
Sailor Tom Armitage
Chorus
Michaela Agius
Lisa Baldacchino
Mark Bartolo
Albert Buttigieg
Karl Cassar
Mariah Costa
Kurt Falzon
Maria Micallef
Stanley Joe Portelli
Karl Schembri
Bettina Zammit
Jessica Zammit
Conductor Marco Mencoboni
Director Denise Mulholland
Costume Design Luke Azzopardi
Set Design Andrew Borg Wirth
Musicians Valletta Baroque Ensemble
Synopsis
Dido, the widowed Queen of Carthage, entertains the Trojan Prince Aeneas, shipwrecked on his way to Italy, where he will found a new Troy. Dido and Aeneas are in love. Witches plot Dido’s destruction and the Sorceress conjures a storm to break out when the royal couple are hunting, and the impersonation of Mercury by one of her coven. The storm duly breaks, and the courtiers hasten back to town, while the false Mercury tells Aeneas he must leave Dido and sail for Italy. Aeneas and his sailors prepare to leave, to the delight of the witches. Aeneas parts from Dido, who kills herself once he has gone, her death lamented by mourning cupidas.
