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Dido and Aeneas

When

Thursday 13 March 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Saturday 15 March 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Tuesday 18 March 2025 from 7:30pm to Wednesday 19 March 2025 6:30pm Thursday 20 March 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Saturday 22 March 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Tuesday 25 March 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Saturday 29 March 2025 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Cost

Starting from: $79

Following the sell-out season of Orpheus & Eurydice in OA’s 2024 season, director Yaron Lifschitz merges jaw-dropping acrobatics and sublime music again with this production of Dido & Aeneas, presented in association with Circa.

One of the most significant operas written in English, Purcell’s poignant Baroque score laid the foundations for all that would follow.

Combining exhilarating physicality and an Australian cast featuring Anna Dowsley making a welcome return to OA as Dido and Sorceress, Jane Ede as Belinda and tenor Nicholas Jones as Aeneas, this is Dido & Aeneas for the 21st century.

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