★★★☆☆ - Small but mighty
Fife Opera’s stripped-down production of Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas in the airy stained-glass nave of Edinburgh New Town Church, is small in scale but sacrifices nothing in emotion or vocal quality.
Based on an episode of Virgil’s Aeneid, the opera centres around Dido, queen of Carthage, her cautious love for Trojan Prince Aeneas, and her despair when she believes he has betrayed her. Opera is infamous for packing high-stakes drama into short timescales and Dido & Aeneas achieves this to an extraordinary degree; progressing from uncertainty, to love, through betrayal and to suicide in just over an hour.
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