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Dido Reimagined, with Dawn Upshaw and Brentano String Quartet.
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Revered American soprano Dawn Upshaw and the unparalleled Brentano String Quartet come together for a new performance project. Sparked by the famous “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Dido Reimagined focuses on “the emotional journey of a powerful woman who has, in spite of her strength of character, been broken by love. Through the lens of the seasons, Dido discovers, confronts, and ultimately makes peace with her fate and with her place in the world” (Composer Melinda Wagner).
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Inspired by the ageless “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s 1689 opera Dido and Aeneas, the celebrated American soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet perform a program of music that draws together songs by Purcell and some of his Baroque contemporaries, among them Matthew Locke, John Dowland and William Byrd, and a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner, Dido Reimagined: A Response to Purcell’s Lament, which Upshaw and the Brentanos premiered last spring.
Jesse Hamlin
SF/Arts Curator
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