La Didone
– Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "O..
Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "One of the earliest operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan Hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido." — from the DVD back cover
Release Date:
11 Oct 2011
Language:
Italian
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Plot:
Preceded by a solemn prologue in which Iride admonishes mortals that they should not offend the gods, the story of Cavalli's Didone comes to life thanks to numerous solo passages of highly ...