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MOVING ON.(Dido and Aeneas)(Dance review)
For its twenty-fifth-anniversary season, in March, the Mark Morris Dance Group staged a monthlong blowout. There were three full programs of dances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, plus three programs of smaller pieces--"Solos, Duets, and Trios"--at the company's headquarters, across the street. There were photo exhibitions and panels and interviews. BAM's Rose Cinemas showed Morris's favorite movies; its cafe featured musicians of his choice. There was even a karaoke night, which Morris led off with a rendition of Patsy Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray."
It was all quite grand and--typically, for Morris--brash, since one of the developments it ...
- Dido and Aeneas.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Jacobs, Laura August 6, 1990 700+ words
...the dual female roles of Dido and the Sorceress. This was the big event...the Queen of Carthage (Dido) and the Sorceress who does her in with a trick...discernible in his melancholy Dido and grand guignol Sorceress (she's part Odile, part...
- MARK MORRIS' DAZZLING 'DIDO'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christine Temin, Globe Staff June 7, 1989 700+ words
...Aeneas falls in love with Dido, the widowed queen, but the Sorceress tricks him into abandoning...gestural language, in which Dido is indicated by a hand circling...whether uttered by Dido or the Sorceress -- is a backward swoop of...
- Special performance of Morris' `Dido and Aeneas'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff August 30, 1995 700+ words
...in 1989, with Morris dancing the dual role of Dido and the Sorceress; the singing cast was headed by Westbrook-Geha (also doubling as Dido and the Sorceress), West and Maddalena, conducted by Smith. Dance...
- Morris Troupe Performs `Dido'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times April 15, 1996 700+ words
...Purcell wrote his exquisite opera "Dido and Aeneas" for a Chelsea girls...it tells of the abandonment of Dido, Queen of Carthage, by her lover...perform the dual roles of the tragic Dido and the evil Sorceress who betrayed the lovers. "Originally...
- Toronto Masque Theatre: Dido and Aeneas/Aeneas and Dido.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Citron, Paula May 1, 2007 700+ words
...is the vindictive sorceress who conjures mischief out of her hate for Dido; in the Rolfe...almost laughable. Dido looked like Carmen...bowl, while the sorceress sported a bolt of...Monica Whicher as Dido and mezzo Vicki St. Pierre as the Sorceress/Goat, this program...
- 'SORCERESS' MAKES SOME MAGIC.(Weekend)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 6, 1989 700+ words
...Director Suzanne Schiffman's French film "Sorceress" deals with the 13th century, but shows...version of "The Name of the Rose," "Sorceress" deals with some similar material as...pastor (Jean Carmet) and others, "Sorceress" is about the ways of life and the balance...
- UO Opera to stage Henry Purcell's `Dido and Aeneas'.(Arts and Literature)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) February 19, 2009 700+ words
...On the way, he meets Dido, the queen of Carthage...Aeneas' charms. A sorceress sends an imposter Mercury...on his journey, and Dido kills herself. "On...example, why does the Sorceress bear ill will towards Dido? "In our production...
- `Sorceress' seems like a spell of bad weather.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Sherman, Paul September 3, 2004 700+ words
...Byline: PAUL SHERMAN "Nina Simone: Love Sorceress." Not rated. At the Coolidge Corner...another music movie, "Nina Simone: Love Sorceress," shows us there's a fine line between...at a 1976 Paris performance. "Love Sorceress" captures Simone (1933-2003) during...
