Students rise to the occasion in a baroque double bill
REVIEW
Opera Double Bill
TU Dublin Conservatoire
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Baroque music is the bedrock of music education in our academies, so it is no surprise that operas of the genre are chosen when it comes to displaying emerging talents.
DIT Conservatory’s double bill here of the dénouement section from Monteverdi’s Tancredi e Clorinda, plus the whole of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, was an inspired choice by producer Una Hunt: both ...