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'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.

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Music: Errollyn Wallen

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Archive listings for Dido's Ghost (2021)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

Live from the Barbican - Staged Concert Performance - T01057942033

World Premiere. 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.Company Dunedin Consort. Conductor John Butt. Lyrics Wesley Stace. Director Frederic Wake-Walker. Performer Golda Schultz (Dido). Performer Matthew Brook (Aeneas). Performer Nardus Williams (Belinda). Performer Allison Cook (Lavinia). Performer Henry Waddington (Sorcerer).

6 Jun 21

Barbican Centre, West End :: V371
listing details L02067284455

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