The opera will be performed outdoors Dec. 11 at the Norton Museum of Art Sculpture Garden. ... Palm Beach Opera opens 60th season with Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' Daily News Staff.

Composed for a girl’s boarding school in 1689 (or possibly 1687), “Dido and Aeneas,” Henry Purcell’s only true three-act opera, is one of the great masterpieces of English music ...

Sarasota Opera’s revised season comes to a close with an intimate production of Henry Purcell’s rarely seen Baroque opera based on ... “Dido and Aeneas” is the only opera by 17th century ...

For a short opera, “Dido and Aeneas” packs a mighty punch. It’s hard to overstate the significance of Purcell’s poignant 17th century masterwork — or its lingering impact on music today.

Mark Morris’ dance production of Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas,” which returned Friday night to Irvine Barclay Theatre, remains a fresh, perceptive and absorbing event. There is ...

PREVIEW WHAT: “Dido and Aeneas” WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday WHERE: University at Buffalo Center for the Arts Drama Theater TICKETS: $5 INFO: 645-ARTS Back in 1689, when ...

Ethel Merman and Mary Martin never tried this. Tony winners Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark put aside their usual show tunes to sing Henry Purcell’s 17 th Century opera, “Dido & Aeneas ...

Of the double bill taking the stage at L.A. Opera this weekend composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, the Greco-Roman myth about the son of Venus’ tragic love affair, represents one of opera ...

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Dido, played by Chelsey Getting, has a dramatic suicide scene, creatively conveyed with fabric and color, in LSU Opera's production, 'Dido and Aeneas.' ...

On Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM at St. Mary's Abbey of Morristown, a musical merger between the Somerset Hills Chorus of Music in the Somerset Hills (MISH) and the Trenton-based LOTUS Chorale is bound ...

Opera Atelier will present two operas based on mythology — Dido and Aeneas and Medea — in its 2016/17 season, co-artistic director Marshall Pynkoski announced Tuesday.