The aim of this site is to enable any professional or amateur troupe to bring this opera to the stage, via resources such as scores or audio recordings.
“Venus Appearing to Aeneas,” by Pietro Cortona, c. 1635, Louvre Museum
Vergilius (Virgil)
This song, the 26th piece (out of 32) in this hour-and-a-half opera, lies at the heart of the tragedy: the Trojan prince Aeneas and the queen of Carthage Dido are powerfully in love. But to the Queen’s great misfortune, Aeneas’ destiny, which the gods remind him of, calls him elsewhere, to Italy, where he must lay the foundations of a “new Troy”…
Dido’s response (song 27) is both desperate and scathing.
In the meantime, history will have taken a detour via the Trojan War. Canto 16 is a hymn sung by the Trojan chorus (here, in synthetic voices, i.e. without the text), as they usher into their shining city the enormous Horse who, the following night, will bring about their doom…
I thank you very sincerely for your interest in this opera, and wish you every success if you decide to put it on the stage; very sincerely, I think that whatever the means at your disposal, you can make a great show, which will please the musicians and singers as well as your audience; for I have put my whole soul into it.
Jean-Philippe
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