Event listing: Dido and Aeneas | St Peter’s Church | Fri 7 Jul 2017 at 20:00

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St Peter’s ChurchSkārņu iela 19, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia

Dates/times in Riga time zone

Programme

Performers

Coin du Roi
Christian Frattima	Conductor
Marco Bellussi	Director
Orchestra Coin du Roi
Elīna Šimkus	Soprano	Dido
Giulio Alvise Caselli	Baritone	Aeneas
Anna Chierichetti	Soprano	Belinda
Milena Storti	Mezzo-soprano	Sorceress
Riccardo Botta	Tenor	Sailor

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A meticulous musical makeover in Riga

Jonathan Sutherland, 7th July

Almost all the singers, orchestra and conductor were Italian, but it was local soprano Elīna Šimkus and the Latvian Radio Choir who sang Purcell’s magnum opus as if to the English manner born.

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