Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.2 : How we made ‘Dido & Belinda’

DEC 31, 20244 MIN
Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them

Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.2 : How we made ‘Dido & Belinda’

DEC 31, 20244 MIN

Description

Ella Marchment (Helios Collective, director), Leo Geyer (conductor, composer) and I (as dramaturg) developed a reading of Purcell's 'Dido & Aeneas' score which made new, coherent sense of the text and the music, addressing themes of our time. Watch THE VIDEO at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38DMVBi9IM&t=475s