Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas from 1689 has become one of the most famous and beloved operas from the Baroque era, with its sumptuous music, dramatic plot and its themes of love, friendship ...

The ballad of a true original.

At first, they're blown off course to North Africa, to Carthage, where Aeneas tells Queen Dido his war stories, and where Dido, against her best instincts, falls in love with him. But there's a ...