Name: Dido and Aeneas
Start: 2022-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Conductor

Matthew Dirst

Stage director

Catherine Turocy

Choreographer

Chorus master

Betsy Weber

Singer

Soprano

Abigail Fischer

Dido

Alexandra Smither

Belinda

Tenor

Mark Diamond

Aeneas

Mezzo-soprano

Nicholas Garza

Sorceress

Orchestra

Ars Lyrica Houston

Others

The Moores School Concert Chorale

Ballet

The New York Baroque Dance Company

English

Dido and Aeneas

Houston

United States

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Zilkha Hall

The online concert broadcast of this performance is available to in-person subscribers, digital subscribers, and Digital Single Event Pass holders. The concert broadcast link will be emailed to patrons on the morning of the performance, and the replay will be available all season long.

Dido and Aeneas Purcell

Public

Approved

Universal stories often revolve around impossible choices between love and duty, hatred and desire, will and destiny. The consequences of such turning points are both beautiful and tragic in opera especially.  
The 2021/22 Ars Lyrica season concludes with a new production of the first masterpiece of English opera. Henry Purcell, early modern England’s greatest musical dramatist, infused his chosen texts with both beauty and pathos. His Dido and Aeneas is a miracle of operatic economy, with lively dancing, memorable choruses, and at its center a noble heroine who loves too well: her demise is both tragic and transcendent.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble