Saturday, 21 November 2020

Purcell - Dido & Aeneas (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)


Henry Purcell (1659-1695)


Dido & Aeneas, opera in three acts


Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano (Dido)

Gerald Finley, baritone (Aeneas)

Lucy Crowe, soprano (Belinda)

Patricia Bardon, mezzo-soprano (Sorceress)

William Purefoy, countertenor (Spirit)

Sarah Tynan, soprano (Second Woman)

John Mark Ainsley, tenor (Sailor)

Carys Lane, soprano (First Witch and Chorus)

Rebecca Outram, soprano (Second Witch and Chorus)


Choir of the Enlightenment

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment


Elizabeth Kenny, Steven Devine, dir.


Edition: Chandos 2009
Recording: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London, 6/2008
TT: 69'50''