La Didone

2011 • Directed by

Olivier Simonnet

Music

La Didone (2011) Les Arts Florissants. Cavalli / Italian

Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "One of the earliest operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan Hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido." — from the DVD back cover