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Category: Dido and Aeneas

  • Opera San José’s Dido and Aeneas

    * Notes *Opera San José has returned to the California Theatre last night with a beautifully cast Dido and Aeneas. Director Elkhanah Pulitzer's new production is likewise attractive. Music Director Joseph Marcheso conducted a reduced version of the orchestra suited to this Baroque opera that clocks in at only 55 minutes. The continuo — played…

  • Les Arts Florissants’ Actéon/Dido and Aeneas

    * Notes * This year a second obscure French Baroque opera was seen at Cal Performances last Thursday, this time from Les Arts Florissants (pictured). Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Actéon, only rediscovered in 1945, is the first half of a show being toured by the French based Baroque ensemble whose name comes from a chamber opera by the…

  • LA Opera’s Dido & Bluebeard

    * Notes * Los Angeles Opera presented a double bill of Dido and Aeneas (Paula Murrihy and Liam Bonner in the title roles pictured left, photograph by Craig Matthew) and Bluebeard’s Castle last night. The juxtaposition of these two works is pleasantly odd. Conducted by Steven Sloane, the orchestra could have sounded slightly crisper in the…

  • MMDG’s Dido and Aeneas

     * Notes * The Mark Morris Dance Group (pictured left, photograph by Beatriz Schiller) opened the new season at Cal Performances with Dido and Aeneas yesterday evening. The audience seemed completely rapt by the experience, and I have never attended a Baroque opera with so little fidgeting or noise. Morris fills all the music with choreography,…

  • PBO’s Dido and Aeneas Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | Press Photographs Interviews of Susan Graham: SFCV | SFist | SF Chronicle | LA Times Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Mercury News | SF Chronicle

  • Confess the Flame her Tongue Denyes

    * Notes * Yesterday in San Francisco, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed the first of six performances celebrating Henry Purcell. The evening started with his "O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song," Chacony in G minor, "Hear My Prayer, O Lord," and the Suite from Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge. Conducted by Music Director Nicholas McGegan,…

  • Review of Urban Opera’s Dido and Aeneas

    This account of Urban Opera's Dido and Aeneas comes to us from someone who only wishes to be known as Don Curzio. * Notes * A pleasure it may be to witness the first performance of a new local company, and it is a pleasure, but Urban Opera may need a little time to fulfill the…