Fiddling while Carthage burns: Jommelli's La Didone from Ensemble Serse

By Charlotte Valori, 11 April 2014

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Reviewed at Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, London on 5 April 2014

Jommelli, La Didone (Rome 1746)

Ensemble Serse

Calvin Wells, Sopranist

Alexander Pullinger, Countertenor

Ronan Busfield, Tenor

Tom Verney, Countertenor

James Hall, Countertenor

Martin Milnes, Countertenor

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.