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Behind the scenes of "The Passion of Dido:" Rehearsal at Walt Disney Hall
This is the last post about November’s concert, we promise! Here are pictures from our rehearsal at Walt Disney Hall in L.A.!
Since the supertitles say, “but, ah! I fear, I pity his too much,” we must be in the first act.
Let’s skip ahead to our favorite parts: Jill Grove sings the SORCERESS: “Appear at my call, and share in the Fame/Of a Mischief shall make all Carthage flame./Appear!”
The Chorale sings the FAIRIES: “Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!”
William Berger sings AENEAS: “What shall lost Aeneas do?” (Of course, Susan Graham’s DIDO doesn’t buy the self pity. You can see in her face that she’s about to deliver one of our favorite lines: “Thus on the fatal Banks of Nile,/ Weeps the deceitful Crocodile.”)
Susan Graham sings DIDO’s lament: “Death is now a welcome guest.”