If “Dido and Aeneas,” like Blow’s “Venus and Adonis,” had been first commissioned for a court performance, and if the opera was not intended to celebrate the ascension of William and ...

Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

The show in question was Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (1689) in a new staging for Longborough festival opera in ...

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 ...

"Dido and Aeneas", based on a story from Virgil's "Aeneid," tells the tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her star-crossed Trojan lover Aeneas. First performed in the late 1600s, the one-hour work 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 ...

Certainly there’s no mystery about the opera’s stature as one of the glories of the Baroque era. The work tells, in achingly gorgeous music, the sad tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her lover, the ...

If you're looking for something different, I'd highly recommend this show—an exciting reinvention of opera that's fresh, accessible, and uniquely Scottish. Dido and Aeneas is at Pitlochry ...

Masks are optional. On Friday evening I went to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo at 695 Elmwood Avenue for a magical semi-staged production of the opera DIDO AND AENEAS.