Premiere 25/4/2025 Subsequent performance in Dutch National Opera & Ballet: 29 April 2025 | Curtain-up: 20:00 | Ticket sales start on: 22 August 2024 | Prices: see page 161 | Location: Main Stage, Dutch National Opera & Ballet | Dutch tour: 30 April, 2, 6 May 2025 (see page 159) Concertante programme on tour Opera in three acts Sung in English Libretto Nahum Tate Musical direction Camille Delaforge Stage direction Rosemary Joshua Dramaturgy Jasmijn van Wijnen Vocals Dutch National Opera Studio Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Musicians of Il Caravaggio DNO Young Baroque Voices Co-production with Nederlandse Reisopera and Opera Zuid Dutch National Opera Studio is made possible by: In partnership with Opera Zuid and Nederlandse Reisopera, Dutch National Opera has developed a new concert experience. Together, the companies will be touring the Netherlands with a Purcell programme centred around the short opera Dido and Aeneas. This music from more than 300 years ago is interpreted by a new generation of opera singers under the leadership of the young Baroque specialist Camille Delaforge. Henry Purcell’s gripping drama, based on Virgil’s The Aeneid, tells the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his love affair, thwarted by witchcraft, with the Carthaginian queen Dido. As the sails of the ship carrying Aeneas away from Carthage disappear as dots over the horizon, we hear Dido’s famous lament. “Remember me, but forget my fate”, she sings while she goes to her death, calling on those around her to remember everything about her except her tragic end. Linked to Saul and the Witch of Endor The programme also includes Saul and the Witch of Endor (1693), another work by Purcell in which witchcraft plays a major role. The Biblical king Saul, who has issued a ban on fortune-telling, calls on a clairvoyant witch to tell him what future lies in store for him, and discovers his end is near. Talent development Dutch National Opera, Opera Zuid and Nederlandse Reisopera are once again joining forces to create opportunities for talent development. Led by up-and-coming conductor Camille Delaforge, the talented young performers of Dutch National Opera Studio, together with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the DNO Young Baroque Voices, consisting of a group of promising young choral singers, will be tackling Purcell’s enthralling Baroque repertoire. Delaforge will be using musicians from her own Ensemble Il Caravaggio for the basso continuo. Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) Early music performed by a new generation of artists 59
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy ODY1MjQ=