Witches Cackle Tonight at Lowell's 'Dido and Aeneas'

In 1698 in England Henry Purcell wrote his opera, "Dide and Aeneas" as an exercise for a "female dancing academy." Tonight the Lowell House Musical Society will present the same opera.

Because Lowell House has no females and only two dancers, talent for the production has been recruited from music schools in Boston and Cambridge. Although dancing plays a prominent part, "Dido and Aeneas" is more an opera than a ballet. A large chorus and orchestra, therefore, made up of undergraduates seated in the pit of the dining hall will supplement the principals on the stage.

Several anarchistic witches and furies responsible for the dirty deeds in the opera are shown cooking up a plot whereby Aeneas will go off and found Rome and Dide will die of a broken heart. Choreographer is JUDITH HASKELL, '51, kneeling.

The performances both tonight and tomorrow night will being at 8:40 p.m.