
19 Apr 2016

Shimajiro in Bookland
This is the fourth movie starring a tiger boy named Shimajiro.
The Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, and director-choreographer Wayne McGregor bring us an interpretation of DIDO AND AENEAS, an opera composed by Henry Purcell, with a libretto by Nahum Tate; based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. We find Dido in her court with her attendants. Dido fears that her love for Aeneas will make her a weak monarch, but her attendants assure her that heroes, too, love....

Dido
Aeneas

Belinda
Sorceress
Second Woman
First Witch
Second Witch

Spirit
Sailor

19 Apr 2016

This is the fourth movie starring a tiger boy named Shimajiro.

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