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 Opera in three acts to music by Henry Purcell. Coproduction with Festival international d`art lyrique d`Aix-en-Provence (France). Libretto by Nahum Tate based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. Prologue by Maylis de Kerangal. Sung in English. Conductor: Christopher Moulds. Director: Vincent Huguet. Set Designer: Aurélie Maestre. 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 cupids.
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