BBC Proms 2020

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BBC Proms: 2020: Sarah Connolly sings Purcell's Dido

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Sarah Connolly sings Purcell's Dido

2020

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Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, featuring Sarah Connolly and Christopher Purves.

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combining tragic love, stormy scenes and the supernatural, in a period performance from the 2003 Proms.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. In a profoundly moving late-night performance from the 2003 season, British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly led an all-star cast in Purcell's most popular opera. The drama portrays the tragedy of human relationships torn apart by fate and divine intervention, while the music - including one of the most heartfelt laments in all opera - powerfully and poignantly expresses the characters' emotions.

Presented by Hannah French

11pm
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Christopher Purves (Aeneas)
Sarah Connolly (Dido)
Carolyn Sampson (Belinda)
D’Arcy Bleiker (Sorcerer)
Elizabeth Cragg (Second Woman)
Matthew Beale (Sailor)
Lucy Crowe (Spirit)
Choir of the Enlightenment 
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 
Richard Egarr (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2003, 2 September)

BBC Proms: 2020

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