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Dido & Aeneas

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When: Thursday 6 October 2016 7:30pm and
Friday 7 October 2016 7:30pm
Where: Iona College,
42 Lucknow Rd, Havelock North
Ticket Information: HB Arts Festival
Adult: $35.00
Concession: $20.00

Dido and Aeneas is a passionate and tragic story
of love, power, treachery and inescapable disaster.

T hirty outstanding students of the renowned Project Prima Volta will present this most famous of Purcell’s operas, with direction and staging by Lisa Jane Easter. Conducted by Jose Aparicio and accompanied by a string ensemble with harpsichord continuo. Based on Virgil’s epic poem, Dido and Aeneas tells the story of the widowed Queen of Carthage and the war hero Aeneas, two ill-fated lovers driven apart by a devious Sorceress. As events conspire against the lovers, Aeneas must leave Dido and follow his destiny. A lesson in history and in the challenges of a relationship grappling with the impossible obstacle of predestination.