Ad Parnassum and L'Offerta Musicale di Venezia: Dido and Aeneas

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 28 September 2012

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 26 September 2012

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

Maria-Lisa Geyer, Director

Roberto De Gregori, Choreography

Ad Parnassum

L'Offerta Musicale di Venezia

Miranda Heldt, Dido

Mark Spyropoulos, Aeneas

Naomi Kilby, Belinda

Krysia Mansfield, Sorceress

Rosie Lomas, Soprano

Aglaia Maria Mika, Mercury

Sebastian Charlesworth, Baritone

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***11

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.