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Jubilate Singers present “Dido and The Pleasure Garden”
September 5, 2020 @ 3:00 pm
$30Jubilate Singers present “Dido and The Pleasure Garden”
A concert of Purcell’s evergreen opera Dido and Aeneas and the
Christchurch premiere of The Pleasure Garden, a witty, artful operatic
romp by Philip Norman and A. K. Grant. Conducted by Philip Norman.
3.00pm and 7.30pm, Saturday 5 September 2020
With soloists from The Opera Club of Christchurch including Samantha
Warhurst as Dido, Fernand Kenel as Aeneas, Sarah-Jane Rennie as Belinda,
Peter Hind as an Art Critic, and Erin Callanan as the ‘spectrally
dismayed’ ghost of Frances Hodgkins.
Accompanied by top Christchurch musicians Amandine Guerin, Jonathan
Tanner, Sharon Baylis, Tomas Hurnik, Matthew Harris strings and Grant
Bartley keyboards.
Tickets: $30.00