Directed by music faculty and NWSA alum, Megan Barrera (Opera and Voice), a dozen NWSA college voice students and fifteen high school students singing in the chorus will perform a modernized production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Set in the late 1950s, the NWSA College Opera Theatre Ensemble aims to highlights clinical psychology during a time when the mental health industry explored various ways to relieve mental health disorders including hypnosis therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and lobotomy. With her unstable emotions, weak interpersonal relationships, fears of abandonment, and self-deprecating behaviors, the opera looks at Dido through a psychological lens to understand the tragedy of this character.
