Opera.


Libretto by

Nahum TATE


Music by

Henry PURCELL


First performance: July 1688, London, Josias Priest's Boarding-School at Chelsey.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Description, name
[sex]		 Voice type
[first performer, sex]		 

Prologue's Characters

Phoebus

  [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

First nereid

  [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Second nereid

  [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Venus

  [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Spring

  [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Opera's Characters

Dido

Queen of Carthage, also known as Elisa   [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ ?,  ♀ ]

  

Belinda

sister of Dido   [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ ?,  ♀ ]

  

Second woman

of the bedchamber   [ ♀ ]

  

soprano
[ ?,  ♀ ]

  

The Spirit

of the sorceress   [ ♂ ]

  

mezzo-soprano
[ ?,  ♀ ]

  

Aeneas

a Trojan prince   [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ ?,  ♂ ]

  

A trojan Sailor

  [ ♂ ]

  

tenor
[ ?,  ♂ ]

  


Nymphs.
Chorus of Nereids.
Chorus of Tritons.
Chorus of Shepherds and Shepherdesses.

The sorceress (bass).
Two witches (trebles).
Chorus of Carthaginian courtiers.
Chorus of witches.
Chorus of hunters.
Chorus of sailors.
Train of Dido, Train of Aeneas.


 

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