Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is packed from start to finish with music of unearthly beauty, wit and grace. Yet a good performance always seems to drive toward the opera's final moments, when the ...

Especially evocative is a moment with Dido in a sheet that calls to mind ... with Libretto by Nahum Tate DIDO AND AENEAS the show is filled with music, love, magic, and tragedy all told in 55 ...

In addition to being the first full-length opera staged here, "Dido and Aeneas" will be the first Tufts Opera Ensemble production ever to be accompanied by an orchestra. Past performances relied on a ...

Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas ... our understanding of a piece of music. In 1987, when my book first appeared, the scholarly consensus was that “Dido and Aeneas” was written for Josias ...