Aeneas at Troy and Carthage A 17th-century double-bill
The Trojan Prince you know is bound
By fate to seek Italian ground.
(NAHUM TATE: Dido and Aeneas)
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris ltaliam fato profugus Lavinaque venit Litora ...
(VIRGIL: Aeneid)
Francesco Cavalli La Didone, Act 1 edited by JANE GLOVER
Libretto by FRANCESCO BUSENELLO translated by ANNE RIDLER
BBC SINGERS directed by GORDON KEMBER Continuo:
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
COURTNEY KENNY (harpsichord) RICHARD WEBB (cello)
JAMES TYLER (archlute)
NIGEL NORTH (chitarrone) MARK CAUDLE (cello) BAROQUE STRINGS led by DUNCAN DRUCE conducted by Jane Glover
12.10* Opera Translated: a talk by ANNE RIDLER.
12.25* Bound by Fate, Part 2
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Libretto by NAHUM TATE edited by LAURIE and DART
BBC SINGERS, BAROQUE STRINGS Continuo:
CELIA HARPER (harpsichord) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
JAMES TYLER , NIGEL NORTH
(archlutes), MARK CAUDLE (cello) conducted by JANE GLOVER Introduced by ALVAR LIDELL
(Jane Glower conducts Eritrea: 28 March)