An Evening of Opera – Dido / La Voix
Description
An Evening of Opera our Theater Screen – Double Feature
Join fellow opera lovers to view and discuss Dido and Aeneas & La Voix Humaine.
Running time is approx. 3 hours and there will be one short interval when coffee will be available.
Dido and Aeneas is a Baroque opera by Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate, based on Virgil’s Aeneid. It tells the tragic story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, who falls deeply in love with the shipwrecked Trojan hero Aeneas, only for malicious witches to trick him into leaving, driving a heartbroken Dido to suicide.
La Voix Humaine tells the story of a woman, Elle, who is alone in her apartment. The phone rings. After several wrong connections, finally she hears the voice of her ex on the line. Gradually we learn details of their relationship and their recent break-up.
