Dominique Visse reviews
A bold new take on Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea
‘Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion’
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
With a cast of singers such as the one chosen by René Jacobs for his new recording of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas it would be hard to imagine anything short of a triumph. Nor, in the event, was I disappointed, though opinions will surely differ over the solution offered by Jacobs for the end of Act II. It has long been thought that music for a concluding scene of the act has been lost.