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.

For Professor of Musicology Robert Shay, the many mysteries of “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell (1659-95) are too important to ignore. That said, he feels confident that his critical edition of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famously Dido’s first scene is in C minor to underscore the foreboding she feels about letting her guard down with Aeneas. Coote heightened this both through the searing intensity of her sustained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dover Choral Society present a concert of Purcell's Dido and Æneas and Haste Charon, Haste by Charles King. The concert begins with a short historical background talk on both pieces by Dr Williams.

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 ...

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