Dido in Karthago | Anna Herbst, Teatro del mondo

In the organizer's words:

Opera & Arabic classical music

The baroque music from Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas", interpreted by the ensemble Teatro del mondo with Anna Herbst in the title role, is juxtaposed with classical Arabic music for voice, oud and percussion by Rita William, Saif Al-Khayyat and Nora Thiele. They want to concentrate on the elements of music that also connect the world: As in the Baroque era, poetry, drama, spiritual and worldly themes, spirituality and unrequited love play a major role in Arabic classical music. Here as there, the music is always based on affect and individual scales are assigned to particular human emotional moods.

Cast

Anna Herbst - soprano Rita William - vocals Saif Al-Khayyat - oud Nora Thiele - percussion Teatro del mondo

Program

Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Excerpts from "Dido and Aeneas". Opera in 3 acts Libretto by Nahum Tate based on Virgil's "Aeneid" "Ya Mahla Al-fusha", "Billadi askara" and "Tajfi wa tasel li'aday"

In the love story between Dido and Aeneas, worlds collide: Aeneas as the forefather of Christian Rome and Dido, ruler of Tunisia, coming from the Levantine culture. This performance also aims to trace this encounter musically.