Mark Morris Dance Group, Dido and Aeneas
with the orchestra and chorus of Emmanuel Music
Mark Morris, conductor

Soloists:
Kendra Colton, Dido
Pamela Dellal, Spirit
Frank Kelley, Sailor
Deborah Rentz-Moore, Sorceress
Kristen Watson, 2nd Woman/2nd Witch
Jayne West, Belinda
Don Wilkinson, Aeneas

May 28-June 1, Cutler Majestic Theatre
Wednesday | 7:30pm
Thursday-Saturday | 8pm
Sunday | 3pm

Mark Morris Dance Group’s performance of Dido & Aeneas is dedicated to the memory of Craig Smith, Founder of Emmanuel Music (1947-2007).

Dido and Aeneas is among the greatest of Mark Morris’ many choreographic triumphs—a masterpiece built on a masterpiece, and an essential contribution to contemporary culture. Morris pulled and stretched Henry Purcell’s majestic creation into a taut and thoroughly modern dance opera of newfound magnitude, using his profoundly understanding musical ear and his world-renowned gift for choreographic expression. Mark Morris conducts the orchestra and singers of Emmanuel Music as the Mark Morris Dance Group celebrates one of Morris’ finest achievements.

Over the course of history the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas has been told many times: in Virgil’s Aeneid, Christoper Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage and Henry Purcell’s magnificent operatic masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas. Contemporary audiences can now experience this tale through the prism of Mark Morris’s creative mind and the stunning dancers of the Mark Morris Dance Group. His dance opera, Dido and Aeneas, performed to the music of Purcell’s opera, relives a story for the ages as seen with contemporary eyes.

"Mark Morris is a dancemaker and a spellbinder."
—The New Yorker

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Mark Morris Dance Group Official web site

The 2007-2008 Dance Series is sponsored by

The Little Family Foundation and