I had missed their much acclaimed Faerie Queen two years ago, but had managed to see their exceptional King Arthur last year (the staging modernised to comment on the whole Brexit debacle). I was not going to pass up this year’s Dido and Aeneas.
I am not very knowledgeable about classical music and hardly go to any classical concerts. But I do like the opera; its the whole spectacle of the thing. Music and song and play. Also I am quite keen on Purcell. Early indoctrination by my father? The particular whimsical baroque elements to his music that make it quite different from the more famous classical music that followed? The rarity of hearing a harpsichord in an orchestral setting nowadays?
pandora pavlides 