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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/apollos-fire-opens-season-with-englis
 h-opera-based-on-ancient-greek-epic/
SUMMARY:Apollo's Fire Opens Season With English Opera Based on Ancient Gree
 k Epic
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 10/3 @ 7:30PM\nThu 10/9 @ 7:30PM\nFri 10/10 @ 7:30PM\nSat
  10/11 @ 7:30PM\nSun 10/12 @ 4PM\nAnother local classical music group open
 s its season this weekend. This it it’s Cleveland’s baroque chamber or
 chestra Apollo’s Fire\, whose international reputation grows every year.
 \nIt will kick off with an ambitious production\, what it calls a “light
 ly staged” production of Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas\, featu
 ring Aryssa Leigh Burrs as Dido and Edward Vogel as Aeneus\, with the Apol
 lo’s singers joining the orchestra to back them up.\nThe opera\, which d
 ebuted in 1689\, is based on a section of Virgil’s The Aeneid\, in which
  Queen Dido is courted and seduced by war hero Aeneas who leaves her to an
 swer a call from the gods. It’s one of the earliest English operas.\n“
 What I love so much about Dido &amp\; Aeneas is its dramatic tautness\,”
  says Apollo’s Fire founder and artistic director Jeannette Sorrell\, wh
 o is helming the production and created a new prologue since Purcell’s i
 s lost. “This is a fast-paced\, emotionally intense story that could hap
 pen to any of us today.  In the manner of a Greek tragedy\, the events ta
 ke place all in 1 day — Queen Dido falls in love with Aeneas\, they cons
 ummate their love\, he abandons her\, and she dies in sorrow.  But Purcel
 l tells us this story in barely an hour.  It’s breathtaking.”\nThe op
 era will be performed five times in the next week at diverse venues: Greys
 tone Hall in Akron on Friday October 3\; Lake Erie College in Painesville 
 on Thursday October 9\; The Tudor Arms Hotel in University Circle on Frida
 y October 10\; the Cleveland Institute of Art on Saturday October 11\; and
  Baldwin Wallace University’s Gamble Auditorium on Sunday October 12.\nG
 o here for tickets and more information.\napollosfire\n[mappress mapid="83
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