Dido and Aeneas (Rec 1952) [with Brunnhilde’s Immolation from Gotterdammerung rec 1948]
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PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (Rec 1952) [with Brunnhilde’s Immolation from Gotterdammerung rec 1948]
Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Thomas Hemsley / The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra / Geraint Jones
[ Nimbus Prima Voce / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 June 2009
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Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. It comprises three acts and lasts about an hour. It is based on a story from the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid, of the legendary Queen of Carthage Dido and the Trojan refugee Aeneas. When Aeneas and his crew are shipwrecked in Carthage, he and the queen fall in love. However, Aeneas must soon leave to found Rome. Dido cannot live without him and awaits death.
"Many good things in this third commercial recording of Dido." (MusicWeb May 2009)
