Description
As part of the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier
A mask combines music, theater, dance and machine effects.
In the second half of the 17th century, London audiences loved this type of spectacle, which gave the ensemble Les Surprises the idea of performing Dido and Aeneas (created in 1689).
Here, Purcell?s music is linked to extracts from plays by Shakespeare, a master of intrigue in which the gods play on man?s destiny.
The artists on stage, in true troupe spirit, participate in the same gesture, being in turn singer and actor, comedian and dancer.
The sea is the main character, within which the characters grotesquely and magnificently struggle with the contradictions of their feelings.
The sea is the music, the movement and the setting.
PROGRAM
HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas, opera in three acts
Stage version
Libretto by Nahum Tate
Texts from Shakespeare?s Macbeth, The Tempest, Richard III, Virgil?s Aeneid and Scarron?s Virgil Travesti
By reservation only
