“As he said at the time,” biographer Joan Acocella wrote in 1993, “he wanted to expand the expressiveness of male dancers he wanted to give them what women had. Morris cast himself in the dual role of Dido and the evil Sorceress that plots the Queen’s demise. The unique combination of baroque vocal music and modern dance underscored Morris’ gift for storytelling and his remarkable ability to shape music and words into movements. As Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium, Mark Morris presented this opera with singers stationed in the pit and with the stage reserved exclusively for dancing. Dido and Aeneas is a dance adaptation of Henry Purcell’s 1689 eponymous opera, based on Virgil’s famous tale of Aeneas’ affair with Dido, the Queen of Carthage on his way to founding Rome.
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