‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate’ sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t always quite so straightforward, 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 […]
‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate’ sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t always quite so straightforward, 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 […]
‘Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate’ sings Dido at the end of Purcell’s opera. But life isn’t always quite so straightforward, 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 […]
Hot on the heels of last year’s celebrated recording on Linn Records, Dunedin Consort presents all four of Bach’s magnificent Orchestral Suites in live performance at Edinburgh International Festival. Each suite is composed for a different line-up, each richer and more colourful than the last. With intricate counterpoint, extraordinary technical demands and a joyously varied set […]
Little is known about the genesis of Handel's early comic cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, but the score was mined for a number of hits in his more well-known operas. Who better to bring this once neglected comedy to fizzing life than Dunedin Consort with director John Butt. George Frideric Handel Clori, Tirsi e Fileno […]
Mary Magdalene is one of the most enigmatic figures of the Passion narrative, close at hand and yet never quite in focus across the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Tansy Davies The Passion of Mary Magdalene John Butt director Anna Dennis Mary Magdalene Marcus Farnsworth Jesus Mary Magdalene is one of the most enigmatic […]
