Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; The Gordian Knot Unty’d. Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan (Harmonia Mundi). Amid the torrent of new recordings and reissues marking the 300th ...

Push! Pull! Buckle! Shriek! In Barrie Kosky's Oper Frankfurt double bill of Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle, the characters of Henry Purcell's Restoration tragedy and Bela Bartok's Freudian ...

"Dido and Aeneas" is Purcell's only true opera, and one of the earliest known English operas. It tells the story of doomed love and devotion to duty.

Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is packed from start to finish with music of unearthly beauty, ... He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Animated, passionate, intense -- as any classically trained soprano should be -- Dora Ohrenstein moves easily between the worlds of classical music ... Ohrenstein will direct Henry ...

English Baroque composer Henry Purcell wrote his first opera based on the story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Prince of Troy, Aeneas, based on a libretto by Nahum Tate. It was first performed in ...

“Dido and Aeneas” is the only opera by 17th century British composer Henry Purcell. The score is long on stately melody and high-minded concepts. Even the plot is considered an allegory ...

DIDO AND AENEAS by Henry Purcell (Opera Erratica/Classical Music Consort). At Winchester Street Theatre (80 Winchester). August 19, 21-22 and 25-29 at 8 pm, matinee August 23 at 2 pm. $38 ...