CD87604 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Cargill/Weiss '04
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CD87604 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Cargill/Weiss '04
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
L'Academie Europeenne de Musique
Teatre de Fontblanche
Vitrolles
November 2004
in-house recording (?)
Dido – Karen Cargill
Belinda – Cora Burggraaf
Sorceress – Tomomi Mochizuki
Second Woman/First Witch – Diana Fligbee
Second Witch – Diana Axentii
Aeneas – Ivan Geissler
Spirit – David Hansen
Sailor – Olivier Hernandez
Conductor – Kenneth Weiss
Yet nice another Dido--this one from the European Academy of Music which I
believe is a product of the Aix-en-Provence Festival each summer. Young singers
and musicians are brought together for a series of performances at the festival
and later in other parts of Europe. This performance comes from a run of three
done in November 2004 in Vitrolles. Of particular interest might be the fine
Dido of Karen Cargill who will be debuting at the MET next season as Waltraute
in the new production of Gotterdammerung. The orchestra is led from the
harpsichord by the fine American conductor-keyboardist Kenneth Weiss