Today's Beautiful Music features the incomparable Jessye Norman singing WHEN I AM LAID IN EARTH (aka Dido's Lament) From Henry Purcell's opera DIDO AND AENEAS. Search Query Show Search.

Baroque opera is a rarity in South Florida, but Palm Beach Opera is enthusiastically digging into this repertory Saturday for the first event of its 60th anniversary season. English opera is even ...

She confidently leads the chorus urging Dido to open up to Aeneas and is there at Dido’s death. Yes, spoiler alert, she dies in the end, but that shouldn’t be a big surprise.

A question gurgling near the surface of every opera production is how much the director will trust the music to tell the story. Unfortunately, rather than letting soprano Krista River and artistic ...

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 ...

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.

For a short opera, “Dido and Aeneas” packs a mighty punch. It’s hard to overstate the significance of Purcell’s poignant 17th century masterwork — or its lingering impact on music today.

Dido and Aeneas is at Pitlochry Festival Theatre until 15 September. Photo Credit: Fraser Band. Click Here to Buy Tickets. Reader Reviews. To post a comment, you must register and login.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Dido, played by Chelsey Getting, has a dramatic suicide scene, creatively conveyed with fabric and color, in LSU Opera's production, 'Dido and Aeneas.' ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music, ...