Word: dido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera faced up to losing its greatest soprano. Nearing the end of a brilliant season, after a ten-year absence, Kirsten Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she plans to close out her 38-year operatic career to follow the life of the concert stage. Met Manager Rudolf Bing still hoped to change her mind...
Miss Adele Milhendler of Longy School is the feminine lead. Other members of the cast are James Perrin '50 and Walter M. Aikman '51. Miss Milhendler and Perrin both sang in the Lowell House production of "Dido and Aeneas...
...producing Handel's "Acis and Galatea" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," the Lowell House Musical Society has properly challenged the unjustified away of the ponderous 19th century opera. Last night's "Dido" makes you think that opera would be better off if everyone did as much with older works as Lowell House...
Because Lowell House has no females and only two dancers, talent for the production has been recruited from music schools in Boston and Cambridge. Although dancing plays a prominent part, "Dido and Aeneas" is more an opera than a ballet. A large chorus and orchestra, therefore, made up of undergraduates seated in the pit of the dining hall will supplement the principals on the stage...
Lead roles for the opera include Adele Milhender from the Longy School of Music who will sing Dido, Katherine Griffith, a graduate student in music at Radcliffe singing Belinda, James Perrin '50 who will sing Aeneas, and Wilfred Pickles '50 playing a sailor. Malcolm Holmes '28 will conduct the undergraduate orchestra...