Guillemette Laurens (Dido), Jill Feldman (Belinda), Philippe Cantor (Aeneas), Dominique Visse (Sorceress), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
In the late 1980s, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded galvanising versions of two masterpieces of early English opera: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. These two seminal interpretations are now available again, coupled for the first time in a single boxed set.
Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Isabelle Desrochers, Veronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Charles Daniels, Mark Le Brocq (The Fairy Queen), Guillemette Laurens, Jill Feldman, Dominique Visse, Agnes Mellon (Dido and Aeneas), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie