by Henry Purcell

Opera Erratica

Winchester Street Theater

Toronto, ON

A contemporary redux of Purcell's masterpiece of English opera about the tragic love and suicide of the Queen of Carthage.

"It was impossible not to be drawn into this production, which marks a new level of sophistication for baroque opera in Toronto. The youthful audience on opening night also bodes well for the future of Underground/Opera."

–Tamara Bernstein, The Globe and Mail

"You'll get a lot more than beautiful sounds in Opera Erratica and Classical Music Consort's production of Henry Purcell's 1689 opera Dido And Aeneas. The visuals are a constant wonder in this hour-long work, thanks to director/designer Patrick Eakin Young... The show's filled with striking moments: hands and feet that frame the cackling witches, a picnic's shadow-play entertainment, a conjuring of the natural world through images of leaves and trees."

–Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine