As the opera opens, Dido, tortured by passion, is assured by her confidante Belinda that Aeneas does return her affection. And indeed, he confesses his love for her when next he enters.

I was pleasantly surprised by the absolute delight and admiration I felt while watching the Scots Opera Project perform their award-winning reinvention of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

The University of Arizona School of Music Opera Theater will perform the chamber opera “Dido and Aeneas” on Nov. 16-19 at Crowder Hall. The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and ...

On Sunday, April 25th, 2021, Sarasota Opera concluded its 62nd season with a fully staged performance of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas to a live audience filling 20% of the seating capacity of ...

Over the weekend, the OTYC premiered their audio-visual production of “Dido and Aeneas” on YouTube Live. OTYC used a film format to challenge traditional opera viewings in the fall semester show.

Victoria had fallen for Henry Purcell, the 17th century creator of the first known English language opera, “Dido and Aeneas.” “I would sing ‘Remember me, when I am laid in earth’ from ...

The Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, and director-choreographer Wayne McGregor bring us an interpretation of DIDO AND AENEAS, an opera composed by Henry Purcell, with a libretto by Nahum Tate ...

The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote took the role of Dido, moving back ... to be England’s first opera. As Dido’s sister Belinda (played with lucidity and empathy by Gemma Summerfield) encouraged her to be ...

In opera, death is an art — one that might ... Joyce DiDonato sing the great final lament from Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in Hamburg. Its text consists of just two sentences: When I ...