She suggests that maybe Dido and Carthage would be happier with Trojan warrior Aeneas ( Evan White) by her side. Aeneas comes to court and at first, is rebuffed by Dido but eventually, she warms ...

“But ‘Dido and Aeneas’ has a lot of comic relief ... I’m singing this melancholy song and I could hear Dad sniffling. “He cried at everything. He cried the most when I performed.

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 ...

Yet, for anyone unlettered in Western music and operas, the title ‘Dido and Aeneas’ could conjure images of togas, tie-up sandals and impenetrable Latin verses set to song. Nothing could be ...

The new song, "Blood And Butter," is streaming below ... The guests on that one? Grimes and Dido. That could be an inspired pairing. Check out "Blood and Butter" for now and come back on February ...

while the contemporary composer Atsushi Sakai expands the work with new compositions and lends the tragedy a mystical dimension. The Swiss soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis sings the role of Dido.

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 ...

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 ...

This piece of music doesn’t bode well for Nora’s future. Dido’s love for Aeneas, of course, ends tragically, with Dido killing herself after her beloved abandons her to fulfill his destiny ...

Blessed by warm sunny weather, Scots Opera Project’s re-imagining of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a libretto in Scots and Gaelic by Dr Michael Dempster and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir ...

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