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Mark Morris’s doubleheader brings together two operas by British composers, Henry Purcell, from the seventeenth century, and Benjamin Britten, from the twentieth. Britten’s “Curlew River ...
Dido and Aeneas, thought to have been composed around 1688, dramatises a story from Virgil’s Aeneid, the pre-Christian saga about a Trojan hero who survives that nasty business with the wooden ...
Two new plays about Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania on her Tunisia-set documentary, and folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell. Show more Kate Molleson talks to Kaouther Ben Hania ...
Dido and Aeneas Playhouse, QPAC, until July 27 ★★★★. Some operas – romantic ones – drag on for hours. Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it ...