Interviews, Stage Spotlight
Building the Sorceress – Conductor David Bates & Mezzo-Soprano Madeleine Shaw on a New Approach to Purcell’s Iconic ‘Dido and Aeneas’
https://operawire.com/building-the-sorceress-conductor-david-shaw-mezzo-soprano-madeleine-shaw-on-a-new-approach-to-purcells-iconic-dido-and-aeneas/
Perhaps no other figure in the history of the baroque period was so transformative, productive, and instrumental in the development of England’s musical heritage than Henry Purcell. He was a composer whose legacy is, somewhat remarkably, both famous and forgotten the world round. Having been born into a musical family—beginning his musical career as a boy chorister at the Chapel {…}
