“Dido and Aeneas,” presented by Opera Notre Dame last weekend, got the standard opera-length applause but — unlike your ...

In this video, soprano Sophie Bevan sings 'Dido's Lament', an aria from the baroque opera 'Dido and Aeneas' by Henry Parcel (1687). Syllabic word setting is when a composer uses one note per ...

ahead of Purcell’s Dido Lament (21%) and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony Adagietto (12%). As such, the Adagio for Strings has accompanied many of the most significant private and public occasions of ...

Recalling his favourite moment, one of heightened emotion and drama, Olsson says, “In the concluding movement, ‘Dido’s Lament’, Dido has driven away her lover and is preparing to end her life.