Carthage Conquer’d: Dreams of Tunis in the Baroque Imagination
Where: Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium
417 E. 61st St.
Price: $25+
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The capital of Tunisia was once the legendary city of Carthage. Its Queen Dido, loved and abandoned by Aeneas on his mission to found Rome, inspired countless musical masterworks from the baroque era to Berlioz. This concert alternates cantatas dedicated to the Carthaginian Queen with the Arabic form of improvisation known as Taksim, as two historically informed ensembles–one western and the other Tunisian, share a stage, offering a new perspective on Dido the misused monarch and the site of Northern Africa as both exploited resource and object of fantasy in the Western European mythscape.
Traditional Taksim, works of Cavalli, Montéclair, Strozzi, Vinci and others
Jessica Gould, soprano
Aaron Brown & Amie Weiss, violins
Loren Ludwig, viola da gamba
Massimo Marchese, theorbo
Kenneth Merrill, harpsichord
Fatima Gozlan, ney & percussion
Brian Prunka, oud
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