On Friday, May 5, I attended two performances both worlds and time apart, each wonderful in its own way. At Kleinhans Music Hall in the morning I heard the first of two BPO concerts with JoAnn ...

She suggests that maybe Dido and Carthage would be happier with Trojan warrior Aeneas ( Evan White) by her side. Aeneas comes to court and at first, is rebuffed by Dido but eventually, she warms ...

Another, from the Roman poet Virgil, puts her at the centre of a tragic love story: first entranced, then abandoned by the wandering Trojan hero Aeneas, Dido curses him and takes her own life.

I was pleasantly surprised by the absolute delight and admiration I felt while watching the Scots Opera Project perform their award-winning reinvention of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Famously Dido’s first scene is in C minor to underscore the foreboding she feels about letting her guard down with Aeneas. Coote heightened this both through the searing intensity of her sustained ...

Somerset Opera's production of Dido and Aeneas at the Museum of Somerset | Photo credit: Edward J Felton First up, this was performed on a sort of catwalk (audience either side) in the narrowish main ...

The University of Arizona School of Music Opera Theater will perform the chamber opera “Dido and Aeneas” on Nov. 16-19 at Crowder Hall. The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and ...

This piece of music doesn’t bode well for Nora’s future. Dido’s love for Aeneas, of course, ends tragically, with Dido killing herself after her beloved abandons her to fulfill his destiny ...

Dover Choral Society present a concert of Purcell's Dido and Æneas and Haste Charon, Haste by Charles King. The concert begins with a short historical background talk on both pieces by Dr Williams.