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 ...

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.

Sunderland’s The Fire Station hosts its first live opera this summer as Samling Academy Opera stages a new take on an English ...

As Dido’s sister Belinda (played with lucidity and empathy by Gemma Summerfield) encouraged her to be optimistic about Aeneas’s intentions ... to be the focal point in any production of this opera, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it usually comes in at under an hour, and is no less beloved for it. Dido and Aeneas, thought to have been composed around ...

Written as an opera by Henry Purcell, in the Baroque period, Dido and Aeneas, even after 300-odd years, remains one of the most-performed English operas. Yet, for anyone unlettered in Western ...

Singaporean arts company T:>Works blends both in a drag version of “Dido and Aeneas,” Henry Purcell's 17th-century cult baroque opera based on Virgil's epic poem “The Aeneid.” Starring ...

It has been a bittersweet week for opera singer Martina Myskohlid, who is finishing up her time as a young artist at the Dutch National Opera Studio. The Canadian mezzo-soprano most recently sang the ...

starts with Nora and Michael in bed listening to an aria in Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas.” This piece of music doesn’t bode well for Nora’s future. Dido’s love for Aeneas ...