Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (complete opera). San Francisco Girls Chorus & Voices of Music | 4K video

Purcell's Opera Dido and Aeneas, complete. Live, 4K ultra high definition video from the award winning performance at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, June, 2018.
This concert won the San Francisco Classical Voice "Best of the Bay" award in three categories: Best opera performance, best choral performance and best Early Music performance. For this performance, musicologists David Tayler and Hanneke van Proosdij reconstructed the choral parts from the original manuscripts.
Complete program and libretto: https://bit.ly/Dido_Libretto
The San Francisco Girls Chorus directed by Valérie Sainte-Agathe; Voices of Music directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler. Visit us on the web!
SFGC: https://www.sfgirlschorus.org
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DIDO AND AENEAS
An opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School
at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen.
The words made by Mr. NAT. TATE
The music composed by Mr. HENRY PURCELL
Dramatis Personae
Mindy Ella Chu as Dido, Queen of Carthage
Jesse Blumberg as Aeneas
Emma Powell as Belinda
Nia Spaulding as the 2nd Woman
Calla Kra-Caskey as the Sorceress
Lola Miller-Henline as the Spirit of the Sorceress (Mercury)
Allegra Kelly as the Sailor
Audrey Johnson as the First Witch
Marie Johnson as the Second Witch
Caroline Sloan as the Third Witch
Isabel Yang as the Fourth Witch
Performers
Voices of Music
Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kati Kyme, Carla Moore*, Maxine Nemerovski, Gabrielle Wunsch and Alana Youssefian, baroque violin
Maria Caswell and Toma Iliev, baroque viola
Adaiha MacAdam-Somer and William Skeen**, baroque cello
Farley Pearce, violone
Katherine Heater, organ
David Tayler, archlute
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
*concertmaster
** continuo cello

San Francisco Girls Chorus
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director
Justin Montigne, Director of Voice Studies

Soprano
Zoë Brunsdon
Isabela Colmenar
AnaKatrina Cortado
Lucy Downes

Samantha Fung-Lee
Ava Gaughan
Jessica He
Eva Jackson
Audrey Johnson
Georgia Jones
Allegra Kelly
Victoria Ko

Emma Powell
Eliana Schiller
Caroline Sloan
Nia Caiani Spaulding
Delilah Whitaker

Alto
Jungah Ahn

Audrey Chandler
BeaAlyssa Cortado
Elisabeth Easton
Rohini Govier

Kelsey Greenberg
Sadie Habas
Marie Johnson
Olivia Kendrick
Calla Kra-Caskey
Maggie Lu
Nicole Lyons
Eva Melin-Gompper

Lola Miller-Henline
Angela Panich
Jennifer Park
Annika Pyo
Gabriella Vulakh
Isabel Yang
#Dido #BestoftheBay #DidosLament

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