This was part of a marvelous Baroque triple-header performed by William Christie's Les Arts Florrissants at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Easily, Dido and Aeneas is my favorite Baroque opera, and most likely of any period. And LAF did ample justice to the work with superb vocal and instrumental performance, as well as an engaging staging. (I don't think, however, that anything will ever match LAF's stunning production of Rameau's Les Boreades.) Performances by Sonya Yoncheva (Dido), Andreas Wolf (Aeneas), and Emmanuelle de Negri (Belinda) were particularly sumptuous.
Highly recommend.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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