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Advantages: Baker is fabulous, rich, full voiced singing, brisk pace, dramatically intense, Disadvantages: None
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of England's oldest operas, having been first performed in 1689 at a Chelsea girls school, and is one of baroque opera's most well known pieces. Based on the legend of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a Trojan refugee, which appears in Virgil's Aeneid, the opera itself is an operatic tragedy in miniature - only one hour long - but when it is well performed, packs as much dramatic intensity as any grand opera.
The opera opens in Dido's palace in Carthage, as she tells her sister, Belinda, that her soul is tormented. Belinda, quite rightly, suspects that Aeneas, a Trojan visitor seeking refuge in their country, is the cause of the torment, and tries to persuade Dido that a union between the two would be advantageous to both kingdoms. Meanwhile, out on the moors, a sorceress and her clan of witches are ...
Advantages: Very easy to listen too Disadvantages: Quite melancholy in places
When Dido first appeared on the music scene in 1999 with her highly acclaimed debut album No Angel it was like a breath of fresh air. The then 28-year-old girl from north London quickly realised that there was a market for this type of music and her melancholy vocals and bittersweet lyrics proved to be a huge success on the opposite side of the Atlantic but it would be 2 years later before she was to enjoy real commercial success in the UK and in 2001 her debut album was the biggest selling album in the UK that year with over 2 million copies sold.
So when a debut album makes you a household name how on earth can you possibly follow up such a success?
The answer is with an album like Life for Rent.
Life for Rent was released at the back end of 2003 and became an instant success. The first single taken from the album White Flag had ...
Advantages: An exceptional Album, well worth a listen, Disadvantages: Can't seem to listen to it on my PC,
Dido ?life for rent?
I am going to attempt something here that I have never attempted before, and that is to write a review on an Album, not just any album Dido?s second album ?Life for rent?
I had already received Dido?s first album ?No Angel? as a present about a year ago, and loved it so much, I could hardly wait until her next album.
I kept hearing her ?White flag? being played on the radio last Oct/Nov, so I added the new album ?Life for rent? to my Christmas list, (and kept my fingers crossed).
Out of the 11 listed tracks, and the 12th track that is a bonus, there is not one single song on here that I do not like,
Dido has a soft, gentle, angelic voice yet clear and powerful, there are some beautiful lyrics, and although most of the songs are sad, this is a really breathtaking ...
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