Actéon, Didon et Énée

From the window of her palace in Carthage, Dido sees the hills covered with olive trees sloping down to the harbour, where the prows of Phoenician ships glint in the sunlight. Abandoned by Aeneas, she sings a heartrending lament that continues to move audiences more than 300 years after Purcell’s opera was born. It is presented here in a concert version alongside another tragedy, Charpentier’s Actéon. Offering a fascinating reflection between Baroque France and England, this program brings together two jewels of 17th-century musical theatre under the direction of Andrew McAnerney.

Presented in coproduction with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal