Dido and Aeneas, Remembered
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28 Aug20:00First performanceLandschaftspark, Duisburg-MeiderichKraftzentrale
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29 Aug20:00PerformanceLandschaftspark, Duisburg-MeiderichKraftzentrale
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30 Aug20:00PerformanceLandschaftspark, Duisburg-MeiderichKraftzentrale
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31 Aug20:00PerformanceLandschaftspark, Duisburg-MeiderichKraftzentrale
Aeneas flees from Troy to Carthage where he meets Dido, herself fleeing from war. A burning love spontaneously develops between these two deracinated individuals. But the gods demand that Aeneas must found Rome. When he abandons Dido, she kills herself. David Marton stages a collage of memory and forgetting in this music theatre project. Virgil’s original text, Kalle Kalima’s compositions and Erika Stucky’s singing are discovered, submerged in layers of earth. These found remnants of Europe turn into echoes of Purcell’s opera: a relic once exhumed and made present that has now disappeared again.
Further Information
Introduction 45 minutes prior to show.
Artist talk 29th of August after the performance.
A production by Opéra de Lyon as a coproduction with Opera Vlaanderen and Stuttgart State Opera. In partnership with Ruhrtriennale .
Language information: In English and French with German surtitles.
Cast
| Direction and Concept | David Marton |
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| Guitar | Kalle Kalima |
| Musical direction | Pierre Bleuse |
| Stage Design | Christian Friedländer |
| Costume Design | Pola Kardum |
| Light Design | Henning Streck |
| Video Editing and Compositing | Adrien Lamande |
| Dramaturgy | Johanna Kobusch |
| With | Alix Le Saux Guillaume Andrieux Claron McFadden Erika Stucky Thorbjörn Björnsson Marie Goyette |
| Choir and Orchestra | Opéra de Lyon |
| Artistic production manager RT | Benedikt Simonischek |
| Technical Project Manager RT | Daniel Teusner |