Soprano Jenny Garrett Jo Hurley Erline Johnson Margot Lunnon Diana Maynard Anna Mumford Virginie PappantoniouKaty Payne Hannah Robbins Stella Ruszczynski

Alto Louise Coopman Helen Dymond Frances Freeman Hinda Golding Monica Healy Katherine Lawson Denise O'Reilly Emma Parsons Marion Paul Linsay SamiiPour Rebecca Sheridan Evelyn Velleman

Tenor Jay Bannmuller Colm Doherty Margaret Jackson-Roberts Liz Till

Bass Mark Hine Simon Judge Adam Richie David Till Peter Walter Julian Watts

We are very grateful to Father Fergus for permission to use the church, and to Joseph Voelker for his assistance with booking accommodation,.

Dido, or Elissa, Queen of Carthage...................................Virginia FrithBelinda, her sister............................................................Eleanor RastallSecond Woman..............................................................Loretta HopkinsSorceress.......................................................................Hannah RobbinsFirst Witch.................................................Ellie Beale, Connie MottramSecond Witch.....................Maddie Harriman, Eloise Longfield-SkeetFirst Sailor....................................................Margaret Jackson-Roberts

Chorus of Courtiers, Sailors ....................Queens Park Singers

Chorus of Witches........................Queens Park Junior SingersMarina AnastasiEllie Beale Clementine Chapple Annie GishenAthena Ham

Maddie Harriman Cecilia JonesIvo LawsonNatalie Lawson Eloise Longfield-SkeetConnie Mottram

Harry PedlowRuby Randall-Cutler Tara ShutesMaryam Zaidi

Keyboard.............................................................Antony Gray

Directed by.....................Mary Phillips & Peter Burtt-Jones

VIRGIL

Purcell

Church of St Anne & St Andrew 125 Salusbury Rd NW6 6RGSunday 27th June 6.30 pm

Queens ParkS i nger s& Junior Singers

VIRGIL - Purcell The story of Dido and Æneas told through scenes from Purcell's opera and readings from Virgil's epic poem The Æneid

The ÆneidBy Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) 70 BC - 19 BCEnglish translation by Robert Fagles

Dido, or Elissa, Queen of Carthage................Kathryn Worth

Dido and ÆneasMusic by Henry Purcell 1659-1695Libretto by Nahum Tate 1652-1715

Overture

ACT 1 The PalaceBelinda: Shake the cloud from off your browChorus: Banish sorrow, banish careDido: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with tormentBelinda, Dido, Second Woman: Grief increases by concealingChorus: When monarchs uniteDido, Belinda, Second Woman: Whence could so much virtue springBelinda, Second Woman: Fear no danger to ensueChorus: Fear no danger to ensueBelinda: Pursue thy conquest, LoveChorus: To the hills and the valesThe Triumphing Dance

ACT 2 scene 1 The CavePrelude for the witchesSorceress: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hateChorus: Ho ho hoFirst Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress: Ruin'd ere the set of sun?Chorus: Ho ho hoFirst Witch, Second Witch: But ere we this performChorus: In our deep vaulted cellEcho Dance of Furies

Act 2 scene 2 The GroveSecond Woman: Thanks to these lonesome valesChorus: Thanks to these lonesome valesBelinda: Oft she visits this lone mountainDido: The skies are cloudedBelinda: Haste, haste to townChorus: Haste, haste to town

Act 3 scene 1 The ShipsFirst Sailor: Come away, fellow sailors, come awayChorus: Come away, fellow sailors, come awayThe Sailors' Dance

Act 3 scene 2 The PalaceDido: But Death, alas! I cannot shunChorus: Great minds against themselves conspireDido: Thy hand, BelindaDido: When I am laid in earthChorus: With drooping wings ye Cupids come