The Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas, composed by Henry Purcell with ... accompanied by period instruments. “Dido’s Lament” is so moving that even those never trained as opera singers, like ...

It helps that Henry Purcell’s 17th-century classic, “Dido and Aeneas,” is as short as ... after loading up two tour buses with 13 baroque instruments, a trunk of music, four cases of water ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman ... “The audience will see a chenda alongside the ...

In 1979, Boston Camerata became the first company in the world to record Henry Purcell’s tragic opera “Dido and Aeneas” using period instruments. A celebration of that landmark recording’s ...

A harpsichord and theorbo (a large lute) will be joining the other instruments of the orchestra ... The story of Dido and Aeneas was drawn from Book IV of Virgil’s "Aeneid" by the Irish ...

"Dido and Aeneas" will be the first Tufts Opera Ensemble production ever to be accompanied by an orchestra. Past performances relied on a single pianist, but this year, Music Director Steven Morris on ...

He and his librettist, Nahum Tate, based Dido and Aeneas on Book IV of the Aeneid ... a 24-member orchestra that performs on Baroque-period instruments. In addition to the musical artistry that ...

The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, plagued by a sorceress ... form of storytelling because we are using our own instruments that we were born with.” ...

We have Greek and baroque influences in the design, and baroque instruments ... no mortal can escape it,” she said. “But ‘Dido and Aeneas’ has a lot of comic relief.

Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire. Divas flock to the title role; Dido’s final “Lament” is a showstopper. Schools and colleges worldwide ...