The production by Henry Purcell premiered this November in the Allighieri Theatre in Ràvena and can be seen in Palma on the 12th, 14th and 16th of February.

Palma’s Teatro Principal has made the leap into international opera production with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which premiered last Monday the 18th of November in the Allighieri Theatre in the Italian city of Ràvena.

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Dido and Aeneas, Teatro Principal’s first international opera co-production

This theatre and the Principal de Palma have joined forces to bring this historic title of Baroque opera to the stage in what is the first international opera production by the Mallorcan institution. After its premiere on 18th November, Dido and Aeneas will come to the 39th Temporada de Ópera del Teatro Principal on 12th, 14th and 16th February 2025.

Considered to be one of the primordial works of Baroque music, Dido and Aeneas was created at a date that is not known with certainty, but which, in any case, is no earlier than 1688. With music by Henry Purcell and a libretto in English by the poet Nahum Tate, Dido and Aeneas tells the love story between the Queen of Carthage, Dido, and Aeneas, the hero of Troy.

In this co-production, the staging is by Pier Luigi Pizzi, an opera historian in Italy and throughout Europe who, at the age of 94, is still active. Pizzi, who is responsible for the stage direction and set design, has worked in the main theatres in Europe, and was the stage director of Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta, which reopened the Scala theatre in Milan in 2004 after three years of construction work.

In the performances in Palma, Andrés Salado will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, while the main roles will be played by Maite Beaumont, Irene Mas, Tomeu Bibiloni, Susana Cordón, Begoña Gómez, Catina Bibiloni and Natalia Salom, among others.