Six creative minds summoned by the OBNC. Xavier Bonfill, Raquel García-Tomás, Joan Magrané and Octavi Rumbau offer up this ‘flowing chamber opera’ based on the classical myth of Dido and Aeneas. Written by Cristina Cordero and directed by Jordi Pérez Solé, this is contemporary opera for a Europe in crisis.

Dido reloaded evokes the dilemmas embodied by its female protagonist, the ruler of a European country who experiences firsthand the eternal conflict between desire and duty that every leader faces. Dido and Aeneas come together at a crossroads between two cultures, immersed in a conflict of love that stems from political affairs reaching far beyond their personal desires. Dido fears that giving her love to Aeneas will diminish her ability to rule.
Go, Aeneas, Go! follows the journey of our male hero, who fights for the utopian ideal of Europe against an inauspicious backdrop. Modern Aeneas is a civil servant who, for the sake of a unified Europe, embarks on a voyage across the Union, battling skepticism in even those countries which seem most devoted to his ideas.
Mythological gods are a far cry from the world of today, but... do money, markets, growth prospects and the risk premium not leave us just as vulnerable as the humans of these tales?