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tragic opera in three acts to a libretto by Nahum Tate after Tate's play "Brutus of Alba" and Virgil's "Aeneid"; recorded in October 1961 in London; Janet Baker; Patricia Clark; Raimund Herincx; Monica Sinclair; The St. Anthony Singers; English Chamber Orchestra; cond. Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis, conductor; English Chamber Orchestra; John McCarthy, chorus master; The St. Anthony Singers
recorded October 1961 in Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
Cast:
Dido, Queen of Carthage -- Janet Baker
Belinda -- Patricia Clark
Second Woman -- Eileen Poulter
Aeneas, a Trojan prince -- Raimund Herincx
Sorceress -- Monical Sinclair
First Witch -- Rhianon James
Second Witch -- Catherine Wilson
Spirit -- Dorothy Dorow
First Sailor -- John Mitchinson
Dido's and Aeneas's Train, People, Witches, & Sailors -- The St. Anthony Singers
Harpsichord continuo: Thurston Dart
Cello continuo: Terence Weil
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