Three hundred years ago, Henry Purcell composed his opera \u201cDido and Aeneas\u201d: he wrote this well-known work in 1689 for a girls\u2019 boarding school, where it was also performed. Inspired by this historical context, the contemporary composer Andreas N. Tarkmann and the librettist Eberhard Streul have created their own opera \u201cDido\u2019s Secret\u201d, a work commissioned by the M\u00e4dchenchor Hannover. Their storyline is modelled closely on Purcell\u2019s opera, which combines magnificent music with a highly dramatic and effective plot, in the course of which the witches\u2019 hatred destroys the love between Queen Dido and Prince Aeneas. Tarkmann and Streul transfer Purcell\u2019s work into the present and into the context of an elitist musical institution through a few dramaturgical changes. The parallels with the original \u201cDido and Aeneas\u201d are multifaceted: while the choir girls in \u201cDido\u2019s Secret\u201d busy themselves with the rehearsals for the Purcell opera because they hope to win a competition, the young main protagonists, as if determined by fate, act in the very same unfortunate constellations as the opera they rehearse. Thus, Streul\u2019s libretto mirrors the dramatic threads of the Baroque original and recasts them in the story of \u201cDido\u2019s Secret\u201d \u2013 a grave plot without happy end which gives centre stage to topics such as communal spirit, peer pressure, and mobbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three hundred years ago, Henry Purcell composed his opera \u201cDido and Aeneas\u201d: he wrote this well-known work in 1689 for a girls\u2019 boarding school, where it was also performed. Inspired by this historical context, the contemporary composer Andreas N. Tarkmann and the librettist Eberhard Streul have created their own opera \u201cDido\u2019s Secret\u201d, a work commissioned … Continue reading Andreas N. Tarkmann: |Dido’s Secret<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,1315],"tags":[923,996,997,998],"class_list":["post-10197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ensemble","category-music","tag-hans-joachim-lustig","tag-paul-mealor","tag-sirius-quartet","tag-sonux-ensemble"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10198,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions\/10198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}