Event

La Didone at St. Ann’s


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 – Sunday, April 26, 2009


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About:

The Wooster Group returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with Cavalli/Busenello’s baroque opera La Didone (1641), in which Aeneas, prince of Troy, lands on the shores of Africa after a violent sea storm. There he falls in love with Dido, queen of Carthage, and becomes entangled in a web of love, deception, power and madness. In Mario Bava’s 1965 cult movie Terrore nello spazio, the spaceship Argos crashes on the planet Aura, and its crew becomes locked in a desperate battle with zombies over the all-important “meteor rejector.”

The Wooster Group stirs these two Italian cultural artifacts together, dropping Aeneas’ ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape, setting the lute alongside live electric guitar, blending acoustic and electronic space, and finding an unexpected synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moon landing sci-fi: A 21st-century retelling of an ancient tale about the destructive (and redemptive) power of erotic passion and the sheer tenacity of human nature in the face of annihilation.

A Baroque Opera by Francesco Cavalli / Libretto by Francesco Busenello / Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte / Music Direction by Bruce Odland / Production: The Wooster Group, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts / Coproduction: Edinburgh International Festival, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, CC Belém (Lisboa) / Presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse

Running time: approximately 90 minutes

Information:

stannswarehouse.org

Tickets:

$27.50 – $42.50
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Phone: 866-811-4111