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Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Dido, played by Chelsey Getting, has a dramatic suicide scene, creatively conveyed with fabric and color, in LSU Opera's production, 'Dido and Aeneas.' ...
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 ...
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 piece ...
Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire. Divas flock to the title role; Dido’s final “Lament” is a showstopper.
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 Aeneas ...
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 ...
A question gurgling near the surface of every opera production is how much the director will trust the music to tell the story. Unfortunately, rather than letting soprano Krista River and artistic ...
First performed in the late 1600s, the one-hour work is renowned as one of the top English operas and is a monumental step for the Tufts Opera Ensemble. In addition to being the first full-length ...
The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali Fong steps into the boots of Aeneas, a character historically reserved for male singers. In ...
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.
Maria chimes in again to give further details on the characters that will be brought to life through vocals. “There are four main characters — There are Dido and Aeneas, both mythological ...