Globe musicians do it in the round!
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
Saturday 13th May 2006 at 8pm
St Peter's Church, Parkstone
Tickets: £20 adults, £7 under 18s
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Leading early music expert Phillip Pickett brings his group Musicians of the Globe to Poole to perform Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas "in the round" in the superb setting of St Peter's Church in Parkstone for one night onlyon Saturday 13 May
The Musicians of the Globe are the "house musicians" of the Globe Theatre, London. The group were formed in 1993 when Philip was appointed Director of Early Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The best-known British early music expert, Phillip Pickett researches and plans his concerts meticulously to combine scolarship, education and entertainment.
For this performance of Purcell's well-loved opera Dido and Aeneas the Musicians of the Globe are joined by soprano's of Worchester College Choir, Oxford. The musians are performing "in the round" to recreate the intimate sound as it would have been heard when performed in the seventeenth century. Dido and Aeneas is belived to be England's oldest opera and was first performed in 1689, at a girls school in Chelsea, London, run by a Mr Josias Priest, who was a dancing master.