Her husband was murdered by her brother Pygmalion, now King of Tyre, and Dido escaped to Libya, where she founded Carthage. The shipwrecked Aeneas is brought to Dido by Venus and Dido falls in love ...
English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...
Purcell’s opera, meanwhile, references the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, as documented in Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid, from the 1st century BC. In the UK, “Dido’s Lament” is ...