HENRY AND HARRY / POTTER AND PURCELL
Friday 17 February | 19:00

LUCIANA MANCINI Dido|Sorceress
OLLE PERSSON Aeneas
ANA BEARD FERNÁNDEZ Belinda|First Witch
FIONA FRASER Second Witch|Second Woman
REBEKAH JONES Spirit
CHRIS FITZGERALD-LOMBARD Sailor

MARK TATLOW harpsichord|conductor
MARIA ROSTOTSKY piano|celeste
LEO FLORIN accordion
KARL NYHLIN theorbo
NORA THIELE percussion

SIGLO DE ORO
LILLA AKADEMIENS BAROCKKÖR
O/MODERNT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
O/MODERNT NEW GENERATION

Purcell’s Dido portrays an exceptionally complex human being who is wrestling with the conflicting pulls of the heart. As the chorus sings when Dido’s fate is sealed: ‘Great minds against themselves conspire / And shun the cure they most desire.’ Approaching Dido via the magical cosmos of Harry Potter, we transpose the seventeenth-century narrative into a contemporary mythical context in two concerts that close the gap between Purcell’s world and our own.

Programme

Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Z 626

Interspersed with:
John Williams /arr. Michael Story
Selections from the film scores for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Henry Purcell Fantasia upon One Note Z 745
Erkki-Sven Tüür Action – Passion
Sting / arr. Alexander Ring Shape of My Heart
Matt Bellamy /arr. David Lundblad ‘Redemption’ from Muse, Exogenesis Symphony (2010)