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 ...

Written by Henry Purcell with Libretto by Nahum Tate DIDO AND AENEAS the show is filled with music, love, magic, and tragedy all told in 55 minutes -what more could you want in an evening?

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 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 ...

The Hadley Court Singers, under the direction of Philip Redfern, will hold their final concert on May 31 at 7:30pm at the Abbey Church in ...

allowed Purcell to achieve his dramatic ideal. In fact, he wrote only a single opera in his short career he died at the age of 36 , but with it, he left us a gem of rare beauty and extreme concision.

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 ...