DIDO AND AENEAS Henry Purcell
an opera in three acts
libretto by NAHUM TATE
based on Aeneid by Virgil
credits
conductor Paul Esswood
director Daniel Stachuła
set designers
Dobrawa Deczkowska
Aleksandra Zembrowska
costume designer Emil Wysocki
choreographer John Svensson
lighting designer Marek Rydian
orchestra manager Jarosław Thiel
chorus master Paweł Piechowiak
project coordinator Maria Banaszkiewicz-Bryła
cast
Dido Sonia Warzyńska
Aeneas Damian Suchożebrski
Belinda Joanna Radziszewska
Second Woman Sylwia Olszyńska
Sorceress Justyna Kopiszka
First Witch Joanna Kędzior
Second Witch Barbara Tritt
Spirit Agata Dembska-Kornaga
Sailor Albert Memeti
Poznań Opera House dancers
Diana Katarzyna Augustyn
the Nymphs
Marika Kucza
Viktoria Nowak
Actaeon Gento Yoshimoto
the Hounds
Vincenzo Drogo
Volodymyr Fortunenko
Ryunosuke Ishikawa
Oliver Jones
Tess Buck Gili
Julia Korbańska
Jakub Starzycki
chorus
sopranos: Justyna Klecha, Marta Krysiak, Natalia Krysztoforska, Aleksandra Pokora, Tola Skomar
altos: Julia Abramczyk, Paulina Dybowska, Katarzyna Glamowska, Ewa Sawczuk
tenors: Łukasz Bielak, Łukasz Trochimiak, Kamil Zofiński
basses: Piotr Nyrkowski, Paweł Piechowiak, Rafał Romanicz, Patryk Rybarczyk, Grzegorz Zajączkowski
The I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań Baroque Orchestra
Within the framework of the Opera Theatre Lab, the students of universities of art have been faced so far with the new works written specifically for this purpose. This time around, the creators and the performers will handle a Baroque opera – Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell – about love of the queen of Carthage and the Trojan leader, which is never to be fulfilled. Let us listen and look how they will inspire it with new life maintaining the respect for tradition!