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Article: Music review: Seraphic Fire's Dido and Aeneas.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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Byline: David Fleshler
Oct. 2--Henry Purcell's late 17th century work Dido and Aeneas is an unusual opera. Lasting barely an hour, it is sung in English, its original language. The work's musical diction is the English baroque, a style rarely heard in opera houses.
As staged Friday at First United Methodist Church in Coral Gables by Seraphic Fire, conducted by Patrick Dupre Quigley, it provided a moving, elegant evening of musical theater.
The opera tells the story of Dido, queen of Carthage, who reluctantly falls in love with Aeneas, a soldier fleeing defeat in the Trojan War. A sorceress who delights in evil for its own sake finds a way to ...