Cork’s International stars Cara O’Sullivan, Majella Cullagh and Mary Hegarty will once again perform on the stage together ahead of their national tour in Henry Purcell’s exquisite masterpiece Dido and Aeneas. This one-hour opera, based on the Roman poet Virgil’s tragic story of Queen Dido and her Trojan lover, Aeneas, was one of the first operas written and performed in English. In this new production, each of the four singers also plays their principal character’s subconscious other self – a concept which heightens the emotional and sexual tension created by the passion of hidden desires. The new orchestration will be created by Baroque and contemporary music specialist and violinist, Marja Gaynor for a quartet of multi-instrumentalist musicians.