Details

The Wooster Group's production of Francesco Cavalli's opera La Didone takes up a work from the days when opera was an emerging art form, and sets it down in a new world splintered by video imagery and made brazen by the electric guitar. Stirring another Italian cultural work of art into the mix, the Group brings into collision the ancient shipwreck tale of Aeneas and his Dido with the crashed spaceships of Mario Bava's 1965 Sci-fi B-movie horror film Planet of the Vampires. Identical leather spacesuits, forbidding planetary landscapes and battles with the walking dead meet with the baroque qualities of Cavalli's score. UL Premiere. Performed in English and Italian. Running time 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cast/Performers

Hai Ting Chinn, Ari Fliakos, Andrew Nolen, Kamala Sankaram, Scott Shepherd, Harvey Valdes, Kate Valk, Charlie Weaver, Judson Williiams, John Young

Creatives/Company

Corporate Sponsor: The List (Glasgow and Edinburgh Events Guide)
Company: The Wooster Group (KunstenFESTIVALdesArts)
Director(s): Elizabeth LeCompte, Jennifer Griesback (assistant)
Musical Director: Bruce Odland
Design(s): Ruud van der Akker, Zbigniew Bzymek (video), Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (video), Reid Farrington (video)
Lighting(s): Jennifer Tipton, Gabe Maxson
Sound(s): Matt Schloss, Joby Emmons