Students rise to the occasion in a baroque double bill

TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama’s production of Tancredi e Clorinda at Smock Alley in Dublin 2

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 ...