Dido and Aeneas: A Funeral for The Queen of Carthage
With Academy of Ancient Music, Barbican, London
- Music Director: Richard Egarr
- Stage Director: Thomas Guthrie
- Designer: Ruth Paton
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“This was a stunning idea: or rather set of ideas….A remarkable evening.”
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“The puppets simultaneously distanced and universalised the story, their faces marmoreal, their limbs expressive, their voices compelling.”
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“…technically inventive concert staging.”
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“..ritualistic and uncanny, suspended between the abstract and the intensely felt. It hurt in all the right places, a deeply moving performance.”
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“The puppets, which Guthrie dubs ‘transitional objects’, paradoxically make the drama more human”
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“stående ovasjoner… en veldig spesiell forestilling… en forestilling som sitter i hodet på deg lenge etter at du har forlatt konsertsalen” (“standing ovations… a very special performance… one that stays in your head long after you leave the concert hall”)