Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen | Harmonia Mundi HAX890410608

Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HAX890410608

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 7th June 2024

Contents

Artists

Guillemette Laurens
Jill Feldman
Philippe Cantor
Dominique Visse
Agnes Mellon
Barbara Borden
Etienne Lestringant
Michel Laplenie
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

Works

Purcell, Henry

Dido and Aeneas
The Fairy Queen, Z629

Artists

Guillemette Laurens
Jill Feldman
Philippe Cantor
Dominique Visse
Agnes Mellon
Barbara Borden
Etienne Lestringant
Michel Laplenie
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

About

In the late 1980s, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded galvanising versions of two masterpieces of early English opera: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. These two seminal interpretations are now available again, coupled for the first time in a single boxed set.

Cast (Dido and Aeneas):
- Dido: Guillemette Laurens
- Belinda: Jill Feldman
- Aeneas: Philippe Cantor
- Sorceress: Dominique Visse
- First Witch: Agnès Mellon
- Second Witch: Barbara Borden
- Spirit: Etienne Lestringant
- A Sailor: Michel Laplénie

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