DIDO & AENEAS / THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII

Henry Purcell: DIDO & AENEAS – Lázár Ervin Program, MVM Pikoló Program
Opera - Premier
This performance is not recommended for chrildren under the age of 12.

Henry Purcell’s epic masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas has to do with the Trojan War. But what is even more important than the historical background of this hour-long little gem is love – as Dóra Barta, the director of the production highlights it, “Humanity has long known that if there is something you can die of, Love is certainly such a thing. Whether it is happy or not, returned or unrequited, one thing is sure: it is dead serious business. The tragic-ending romantic affair enfolding between the queen of Carthage and the Trojan hero was made into a grand classic of universal cultural history by Virgil, but it was the thirty-year-old Henry Purcell whose music made its heroes rise to the stars, among which they have been shining with never fading light for three and a half centuries now.”

General cast:
Dido....................................... Eszter Balogh / Mózer Zsófia / Ágnes Anna Kun
Aeneas.................................. Attila Erdős / Lóránt Najbauer / Lőrinc Kósa
Belinda.................................. Ágnes Molnár / Eszter Zemlényi / Andrea Brassói-Jőrös
Sorceress.............................. Boglárka Laczák / Judit Németh
First Witch............................. Melinda Heiter / Anna Csenge Fürjes / Lusine Sahakyan
Second Witch........................ Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz
Sailor..................................... Gergely Biri / József Mukk
Spirit...................................... Tímea Tímár
Second Woman..................... Vivien Józan univ.stud.

Conductor:

Librettist: Nahum Tate
Director and choreographer: Dóra Barta
Musical director: László Barta