Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas

Opera Circle & HGO
Online
09 Mar 2022 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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Blow    Venus & Adonis / Purcell   Dido & Aeneas

An evening profiling the operas and HGO’s forthcoming new production.

HGO’s new double-bill production of John Blow’s ‘Venus and Adonis’ and Henry Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ explores the darkness and sorrow that can brew in the heart of love and passion, as revealed by these Baroque masterpieces. Strong, powerful and dynamic women are caught up in love that will sap both their identity and their agency; for them, love proves fundamentally unkind….

Please book by 1pm on the day of the event.

HLSI Members: Free
Non-Members: £5