Purcell and Mozart opera double bill — 2 and 4 September 2010

Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell

Dido, Queen of Carthage

Max Spencer as Aeneas, Prince of Troy

Leila Fetter as the Sorceress

The Sorceress and her brood

Leith Dudfield as the First Witch

Judith Swanson as the Second Witch

Madeleine Rowland as the Second Woman

Katie Cole as Belinda

Kenneth Smith as the Sailor

Rachel Parsons as The Spirit

Adam Krusec, Stage and Production Assistant


In Dido's palace

Dido with her servants and friends

Aeneas courts Dido

The Sorceress plots


Matthew conducts the Chorus


In the countryside


Belinda


Proud Aeneas

Aeneas's figurehead

The Spirit speaks

Harbourside


The Sailor's song


Sailors' farewell


The Sorceress gloats

Dido	. . . ends her life

The Chorus laments


Roses for Dido's grave


The cast


Pat and Colin


. . . take a bow