Dido And Aeneas – Teatro Goldoni, Livorno

About this event

A new staging originating at Teatro Verdi di Pisa and co-produced with Teatro Goldoni in Livorno brings Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas back to Teatro Goldoni after nearly twenty years. The production restores the original prologue, with score and dramaturgy reconstituted by conductor Attilio Cremonesi and director-designer Francesco Bondì. Bondì signs direction, sets, and costumes; Roberto Tusa assists with sets; lighting design is by Cristian Zucaro; and Sabrina Vicari provides choreography for the opera’s dance inserts. Mattia Mantellato contributes an archaic English translation of the Hymn to Juno. The staging is framed as a concise yet intense Baroque jewel, balancing arias, choruses, and dances around the central drama of Dido’s love and abandonment.

Cast & creative

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  Dido

  Anna Caterina Antonacci
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  Belinda

  Penelope Kendros
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  Second woman

  Erica Zulikha Benato
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  Sorceress/Sorcerer

  Margherita Maria Sala
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  First witch

  Anita Montserrat
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  Spirit

  Anita Montserrat
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