Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre | Directions

255 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA
United States

From April 21-24 NEC’s Opera students will present Perla’s “An American Dream,” Ravel’s “L’enfant et les sortilèges,” and Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” under the direction of Joshua Major, Chair of Opera Studies.

This event will be in-person and also livestreamed.

Watch livestream from Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

Conductors
Artists
  • Leon Major, Stage Director
  1. Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

    Artists
    • Nahum Tate, libretto
    • Ga-Young Park, harpsichord
  2.  

    April 21 & 23

    Darby Clinard
    Mark Tempesta
    Loren Graziano
    Emma Robertson
    Keith Wehmeier
    Gayeon Lee
    Chihiro Asano
    Benjamin Maines       
    Andersen White



    DIDO
    AENEAS
    BELINDA

    SECOND WOMAN
    SORCERESS
    FIRST WITCH
    SECOND WITCH
    SPIRIT
    SAILOR

    April 22 & 24

    Juliette Kaoudji
    Ilhee Lee
    Huanhuan Xie
    Katerina Skafidas
    Keith Wehmeier
    Sara Buggy
    Yuwen Sun
    Josaphat Contreras
    Kayleigh Bennett

    Chorus:

    Justine Boonstra, Jennifer Burks, Elizabeth Camele, Josaphat Contreras
    Kristina Costello
    , Calandra Damouras, Lila Dunn, Alexandra Henderson

    Thai Johnson, Ja Woon Koo, Benjamin Maines, Sara Mitnik, Emma Robertson
    Wenxin Sha, Katerina Skafidas, Emma Ujifusa, Libang Wang, Margot Wegman
    Jin Yu, Wenbo Zhao


     

    NEC Philharmonia

    Violin 1           Victoria Pan, Cheng-Hsuan Ethan Chen, Hyeonah Hong, Yeonsoo Kim
    Violin 2           Qiyan Xing, Jordan Hadrill, Hannah O’Brien, Kate Knudsvig
    Viola                Samuel M. Zacharia, Anabel Tejeda, Sachin Shukla
    Cello                Hechen Sun, Jeremy Tai, Daniel Kim
    Bass                
    Jacob Kalogerakos
    Harpsichord    Name