Aeneas is the perfect guy — strong yet gentle, protective and attentive, not to mention good-looking. He’s also a Trojan hero. Maybe he’s too perfect, which is reason enough for Dido’s ...

The opera DIDO AND AENEAS may clock in under an hour, but this production by Bodhi Tree Concerts is a delightful evening spent at a theatre. Performances are only this weekend through Sunday ...

Mark Morris’ dance production of Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas,” which returned Friday night to Irvine Barclay Theatre, remains a fresh, perceptive and absorbing event. There is ...

Additionally, ballet performers from The Lewis Foundation Of Classical Ballet will also add to the experience of this ...

Dido is full of sorrow, saying “Peace and I are strangers grown,” and she is suggested to accept Aeneas’s proposal of marriage. The second act follows a sorceress plotting the destruction of Carthage ...

Despite their common origins in the courts of Europe, opera and dance can be uncomfortable bedfellows. In July, the Paris Opera Ballet revealed Pina Bausch’s approach to the marriage of the two ...

Purcell Dido and Aeneas/ Handel Acis and Galatea, Royal Opera/ Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London. Edward Seckerson. Wednesday 01 April 2009 10:28 BST. Comments.

The richness of the musical and dramatic material in Henry Purcell’s hour-long 1689 opera Dido and Aeneas has inspired directors and opera companies to try all kinds of alternative stagings.

Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

Costumed excerpts from Dido and Aeneas, one of the greatest operas in the English language, come to life in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in this prev… ...