Every year the LNOBT Open Festival has its own special evening, presenting the festival premiere. This year it is a theatrical production of Purcell's royal baroque opera Dido and Aeneas. The opera will be directed by guest from Budapest Dora Barta, who will be joined by fellow artists Ildi Tihanyi (set design), Andrea Kovacs (costumes) and Zoltan Katonka (lighting). In the courtyard of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, the festival stage will see the revival of a Hungarian opera performance, which has been a huge success there, running for several seasons, and an educational programme based on it. Dido and Aeneas is the only opera written by Henry Purcell (1689), and is one of the first operas written in England. Its plot tells the classical mythological legend of the love between Dido, a refugee from Tyre who became Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, the hero of the Trojan War. Unfortunately, each of them is fated and their love is doomed to a tragic end. Eneas, in defiance of fate, abandons Dido, who dies heartbroken. Dido's lament at the end of this drama is one of the most beautiful gems not only of Purcell's music, but of Baroque music in general.