Les Arts Florissants - Didone - DVD

This new production of La Sonnambula dazzles with lovingly detailed and imaginative sets that produced a Swiss alpine resort in the 1930s. Bepi Morassi's staging is described as 'a spirited and witty new production' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The New York Times hailed Jessica Pratt as a soprano of 'gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical gract'.

One of the first operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido. Cavalli learnt at the feet of Monteverdi, and his dramatic transformation of the story is all the more expressive for it's intimacy, worthy of the examples set by his master. At the centre of this bold and simple staging - the first opera production by comic actor Clement Hervieu-Leger - is the Queen of Carthage herself, sung with uncompromising intensity by Anna Bonitatibus. William Christie and his singers and players show themselves entirely attuned to the world of Cavalli, where meaning and music fuse.

Didone Abbandonata [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] 2 Pack Released 2017 product/publication from Dynamic