He captures the danger of passion and the effect on those who may have the best of intensions. His choice of Stephanie Blythe to sing Dido and Sorceress roles was brilliant. Stephanie's voice was astonishingly impressive. The Lead dancer for Dido and Sorceress were a beautiful statuesque woman. Her long, kinky hair was pinned up for Dido, the undisciplined locks down in her face for the Sorceress. Making the switch between characters seem real. The conflict that Aeneas struggles with in trying to obey the gods is truly expressed in the art of dance and rhythmic movement. Jennifer Modenessi said this in a review of the remarkable show: "A pair of lovers. An evil sorceress. A doomed affair. The plot of Henry Purcell’s 1689 opera “Dido and Aeneas” is classic stuff.
And when acclaimed choreographer Mark Morris debuted his minimalist but deeply dramatic dance adaptation of Purcell’s opera with a live orchestra and singers in 1989, critics said he made the tale of the ill-fated Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her lover, the warrior Aeneas, timeless.