A Hexham-based institute is to put on a new opera production with an acclaimed ensemble. The Samling Institute is teaming up with the Dunedin Consort, led by John Butt, for a new production of Henry ...

Because visual effects tend to provide easier satisfaction to our senses than sonic ones, it is only natural that their work often distracts from the music and story of Purcell’s sublime opera, Dido ...

“Dido and Aeneas,” presented by Opera Notre Dame last weekend, got the standard opera-length applause but — unlike your stereotypical work by Wagner or Verdi or whoever — is a mercifully short piece.

CJ Wu conducts singers from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Dallas Opera Orchestra in TDO's Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase Concert at the Winspear Opera House on ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch Dido and Aeneas (1996). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.

In total transparency, I was apprehensive about this one because I’ve always associated opera with being outdated and inaccessible. However, director David Douglas has completely changed my mind.

Singers in all voice parts are invited to join Woods Hole Cantata Consort for its 51st season as it presents Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” on Saturday and Sunday, August 17 and 18.

The roles of Dido and the Sorceress will both be sung by mezzo-soprano Emily Skilling, a South Carolina District winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

She rarely sang with the local opera companies, although she did make a 1982 appearance with Opera Philadelphia as the “lady in waiting” in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She only sang with the ...

In theater, as in life, you can often point to a moment when a love story turns tragic, of words misunderstood or promises broken. In the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra’s production of Henry Purcell’s ...