Dido and Aeneas: A funeral for the Queen of Carthage in the Barbican Oct. 2018. Photo by Mark Allan

Dido and Aeneas: A funeral for the Queen of Carthage in the Barbican Oct. 2018. Photo by Mark Allan

Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic in world premiere of Conrad Tao’s “Everything’s Go To Go” 9/28/18. Photo by Chris Lee

Music Director: Richard Egarr

Stage Director: Thomas Guthrie

Designer: Ruth Paton

SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL *****

‘This was a stunning idea: or rather set of ideas….A remarkable evening.’

GUARDIAN ****

‘The puppets simultaneously distanced and universalised the story, their faces marmoreal, their limbs expressive, their voices compelling.’

THE TIMES ****

“…technically inventive concert staging.”

BACH TRACK ****

‘..ritualistic and uncanny, suspended between the abstract and the intensely felt. It hurt in all the right places, a deeply moving performance.’

ARTSDESK ****

‘The puppets, which Guthrie dubs ‘transitional objects’, paradoxically make the drama more human’.