English Touring Opera: Ariadne / Dido & Aeneas
English Touring Opera: Ariadne / Dido & Aeneas at Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
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About the show
A double-bill of timeless stories of love and loss.
Ariadne
Ariadne wakes on the shore and finds Theseus gone. She helped him escape Crete, leaving her home, her family, and the life she knew behind. Now she has been abandoned.
King Minos’ daughter writes to the lover who has deserted her in a poignant one-act drama which explores the rage and pain of a break-up. An intimate retelling of the myth of Ariadne, Elena Langer sets Glyn Maxwell’s poem Ariadne to Theseus into a 20-minute powerhouse performance for soprano for the first half of ETO’s Autumn Double Bill.
Dido & Aeneas
Queen Dido finally admits her love for the Trojan war hero, Aeneas, and agrees to marry him, despite her fears that this passion weakens her as a leader. But just as the lovers celebrate, supernatural and natural forces combine to drive them apart and Dido’s worst fears are realised, with devastating consequences.
One of the first and still best-loved of all English operas, Purcell distills this classic story into a masterful hour of beauty, drama and desolation.
Featuring - English Touring Opera (ETO)
English Touring Opera is the leading touring opera company in the UK. ETO travels to more regions and to more venues than any other English opera company, touring annually to around 55 venues and presenting as many as 110 performances per year.
Their aim is to offer opera to everyone, with a varied repertoire of high-quality professional productions featuring some of the finest talent in opera.
ETO are an Olivier Award winning company, having won the Outstanding Achievement in Opera Award at thE 2014 ceremony.