A double bill of timeless stories of love and loss.

Ariande

You left for dead. I love you.

Ariande walks on the shore and finds Theseus gone. She helped him escape Crete, leaving her home, her family, and the life she once knew behind. Now she has been abandoned.

King Minos' daughter writes to the lover who has abandoned her in a poignant one-act drama which explores how absence is defined by love. A powerful and intimate retelling of the myth of Ariande, Elena Langer sets Glyn Maxwell's Poem Ariande to Theseus for the first half of ETO's Autumn Double Bill.

Dido and Aeneas

Queen Dido of Carthage prepares to wed the Trojan hero, Aeneas. But the rejected King Iarbas has planned his revenge with a devastating intervention that threatens to drive the lovers apart.

Based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas recalls the tragedy of the Queen of Carthage in a masterpiece of Baroque music, theatricality, and dispair.

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