Katherine Watson

The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus.

Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "One of the earliest operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan Hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido." — from the DVD back cover

Tragédie lyrique en cinq actes Version 19 novembre 1739 Académie Royale de musique. Paris Livret: Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère D'après Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide

In the new production of the Return of Ulysses at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées all the ingredients were gathered for a successful show: the music of Monteverdi, a mythological story, a wonderful orchestra on period instruments, baroque specialists like Magdalena Kožená, Isabelle Druet and Katherine Watson, and finally the exuberant Rolando Villazón.