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This special version of Dido & Aeneas was created by Sasha Waltz and Italian conductor Attilio Cremonesi, recreating Purcell's original idea of a stage work combining music and dance. Together they replaced the lost music of the prologue for the opera with different music by Purcell and added several dances by Purcell to augment the piece which now lasts 100 minutes. In the prologue the dancers of the company swim in a huge full with water aquarium situated center stage. The production enjoyed rave reviews from opera and dance critics all over the world. Opera in three acts and one prologue Text by Nahum Tate after the 4th chant by Aeneis by Vergil Music by Henry Purcell Choreography by Sasha Waltz Choreography Direction Sasha Waltz Musical direction Reconstruction Attilio Cremonesi Set design Thomas Schenk Sasha Waltz Costumes Christine Birkle Light Thilo Reuther Dido Aurore Ugolin (Song) Clémentine Deluy (Dance) Michal Mualem (Dance) Aeneas Reuben Willcox (Song) Virgis Puodziunas (Dance) Trainofaeneas Luc Dunberry (Dance) Manuel Alfonso Pérez Torres (Dance) Belinda Deborah York (Song) Sasa Queliz (Dance) Second Woman Céline Ricci (Song) Maria Marta Colusi (Dance) Narrator Charlotte Engelkes (Dance) Sorceress Fabrice Mantegna (Song) Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Dance) Xuan Shi (Dance) First witch A sailor Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Song) Takako Suzuki (Dance) Second witch A spirit Michael Bennett (Song) Jirí Bartovanec (Dance) Ascanius László Sandig (Dance) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Vocalconsort Berlin Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in co-production with Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Opéra National de Montpellier. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Film Director: Peter Schönhofer Film Production by ZDF and ARTE Trailer by Stephan Talneau