Past Event
Friday, March 29, 2019, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Aeneas in the Underworld
1008 Wall Street, San Diego, 92037
Cost: $5 - $25
Begun as a collaboration between former San Diego New Music executive director Colin McAllister and composer Christopher Adler in 2006, “Aeneas in the Underworld” is an ambitious and unique project combining oratory and music for a solo performer who recites the sixth book of Virgil’s epic story, the Aeneid, in the original Latin, while playing a guitar (which is subject to drastic retuning, preparations, and playing implements). The soloist, embodying the extraordinary mastery of Aeneas, the hero, is accompanied by a second guitarist, string quartet, and electronics. The story recounts the hero’s descent into the underworld and fateful meeting with the shade of his father, which reveals to the hero the future glories of Rome.