{"id":9089,"date":"2018-11-28T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:29:48","slug":"court-in-the-act-rehearsing-purcells-dido-and-aeneas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2018\/11\/28\/court-in-the-act-rehearsing-purcells-dido-and-aeneas\/","title":{"rendered":"Court in the Act: rehearsing Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rehearsals are underway for a performance in February of Purcell’s ground-breaking Dido and Aeneas<\/em> by the University Cecilian Choir,<\/strong> String Sinfonia<\/strong> and soloists.<\/p>\n

Driven by characterful choruses, the Chorus has a significant role to play throughout each of the acts. Whether courtiers to the Queen, a coven of witches or lusty and infidelious sailors, the Choir will have a major part to play in the gradual unfolding of the witches’ nefarious scheming to come between the Queen of Carthage and the Trojan prince…<\/p>\n

The Choir has been working hard in rehearsals each week, and is here captured getting into character as palace courtiers for the start of Act I.\"\"<\/p>\n

Soloists in the opera are drawn from the Choir, including third-year Music Scholar, Fleur Sumption and first-year Felicity Bourdillon, seen here in an earlier rehearsal for Acts I and II.<\/p>\n

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Banish sorrow, banish care…<\/p>\n