Join NEC on November 27 and 28th for their Boston Early Music Festival. (30 Gainsborough Street)
Mark Morris, move over: for its third annual Thanksgiving Weekend chamber-opera production, the Boston Early Music Festival is putting on Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with Laura Pudwell as Dido, Douglas Williams as Aeneas, and Yulia Van Doren as Belinda, plus actual Baroque dancing. And the chance to pick up the brand new BEMF recording of one of the BEMF’s 2008 chamber operas, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Actéon. (We haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but the packaging gets 10 out of 10.) Two performances this year instead of the previous one, so tickets may not last long at Jordan Hall.
Tickets: $125, $66, $49, $38, $19.
Times: Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm
Concert List:
Laura Pudwell, Dido
Douglas Williams, Aeneas
Yulia Van Doren, Belinda
Caroline Copeland & Carlos Fittante, Featured Baroque Dancers
Teresa Wakim, Second Woman, Lady in Waiting for Dido
Brenna Wells, First Witch/First Enchantress
Carrie Henneman Shaw, Second Witch/Second Enchantress
Jose Lemos, Spirit in form of Mercury
Jason McStoots, Sorceress
Zachary Wilder, Sailor
Thea Lobo, Vocal Ensemble
Annie Rosen, Vocal Ensemble
Michael Barrett, Vocal Ensemble
Ulysses Thomas, Vocal Ensemble
John Proft, Vocal Ensemble
Olivier Laquerre, Vocal Ensemble
