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!


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