Recordings of Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas ultimately hinge on the dramatic strengths of the singer playing Dido, so who is best as the tragic queen? Henry Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas (his only true opera) ...

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 ...

The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, plagued by a sorceress who doesn’t want their love to be. Written around 1683 by Henry Purcell and first performed in 1689, it was ...

Les Arts Florissants, led by William Christie in performance and masterclasses of two masterpieces from their repertoire, Actéon by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell ...

The Belgian dance theater collective Peeping Tom stages Henry Purcell's opera as a surreal ... widow who identifies with the opera heroine Dido. Victim of an unattainable love, she confronts ...

According to one of Henry Purcell’s contemporaries ... s original Virgil-inspired libretto for the composer’s Dido and Aeneas and recasts it as a curious amalgam of Scots and Gaelic?

This young professional artist development programme kicks off with an adaptation of English baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas. The work tells the love story of Dido (Alice ...

Pairing Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas defies that tradition because not only are they both vivid operas about fatal love but the initial sunny disposition of the ...