Thursday, June 18, 2020

SF Girls Chorus & Voices of Music in Dido and Aeneas


Screencap from the video described in this article


Received a couple of weeks ago:
The San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Early Music Society, and Voices of Music invite you to join us for our 4K ultra high definition video premiere of Purcell's Opera Dido and Aeneas, streamed live, and FREE, on the Voices of Music YouTube channel, linked here:
https://youtu.be/hb1_GaI-1yI
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.
The San Francisco Girls Chorus directed by Valérie Sainte-Agathe; Voices of Music directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler.
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 Cra-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
The performance venue was First Congregational Church in Berkeley.


No comments: