La Didone
Opening Night: April 6, 2009
Closing: April 26, 2009
Theater: St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann’s Warehouse presents the U.S. premiere of The Wooster Group’s La Didone, the seminal company’s distinctive take on Francesco Cavalli’s baroque opera, libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1641)
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April 6, 2009
"When it comes to striking sparks from crashing art forms and time zones, nobody beats the Wooster Group at the top of its game. The mind-bending pyrotechnics — visual, aural and intellectual — never stop in “La Didone,” a work that crosses a little-known 17th-century opera (about Dido and Aeneas) with a little-known 1965 movie (about extraterrestrial body snatchers)."
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