Dido and Aeneas, Remembered

Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ is immortal. But how comprehensible are the heroes and gods of Virgil and Purcell’s librettist to us now? What does this miniature opera tell us today? These questions inspired the Hungarian director David Marton. In ‘Dido and Aeneas, Remembered’, he analyses our relationship to time. Together with B’Rock Orchestra and a colourful cast of singers and actors, he gets to the root of the age-old story and adds a chapter to it. The new music from composer and guitarist Kalle Kalima builds a bridge between the 17^th and the 21^st centuries. Voice artist Erika Stucky jumps in as an ‘agent-provocateur’. In this way, a new territory is created in which time is abolished. As a result, a universal core of humanity spontaneously rises to the surface.

Coproduction with Opéra de Lyon