Dido & Aeneas
The sublime beauty of the music and the word in a spectacle to dream
“Peace and I are stranger grown”
Based on the play Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe and the Opera Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell with Nahum Tate’s libretto, this new Arriaga Theatre’s production is leading this two master pieces together. It tells the tragic love story of the Carthaginian Queen Dido and Aeneas, who escaped from Troy and who, having strayed from the actual sea route, landed on Carthage’s coast. A great story about wild passion, the power of feelings, ending in betrayal and farewell!
Barbora Horáková Joly conducts this play, where she’ll be guiding a basque cast, including both performers and singers. The interpretation of this work will be realized in euskara, the texts, and in the original language, english, the music.
New production by Arriaga Theatre
The team
Music: Henry Purcell
Texts: Christopher Marlowe
Libretto: Nahum Tate
Stage direction: Barbora Horáková Joly
Musical director: Petros Bakalakos
Scenography: Eva-María Van Acker
Lighting: Michael Bauer
Costume design: Benjamin Burgunder
Choreography: James Rosental
DJ composer: Janiv Oron
Chorus director y repeater master: Carlos Imaz
Dido: Miren Gaztañaga (actress), Nerea Berraondo (singer)
Eneas: Adrián García de los Ojos(actor), León de la Guardia (singer)
Júpiter: Joseba Apaolaza
Juno: Idoia Merodio
Venus: Itziar Lazkano
Cupido: Karmele Larrinaga
Ganymed: Koldo Olabarri
Belinda: Lucía Astigarraga (actress),Naroa Intxausti (singer)
Iarbas: Mikel Losada
Ascanius: child
Chorus: Ana Sagastizabal, Ainhoa Zuazua, Alicia Manceras, Josu Cabrero, Alesander Pérez, José Manuel Díaz
Orchestra: Propitia Sydera Bilbao
New production by Arriaga Theatre
Passes
07:30pm
Prices
from €15 to €52 /discounts
Friends of the Arriaga: 25%Groups, young people, over 65s, the unemployed, large families and people with disabilities in excess of 33%: 20%
Last minute discount (for the previous groups, except Friends of the Arriaga): 50%
Last minute discount for Young Friend of the Arriaga: 70%
Disabled persons in a wheelchair: 50% (in the proscenium, balcony and a companion)
Duration
2 hours No interval