The Belgian dance theater collective Peeping Tom stages Henry Purcell's opera as a surreal ... widow who identifies with the opera heroine Dido. Victim of an unattainable love, she confronts ...

The staging of Dido and Aeneas, written 300-odd years ago by Henry Purcell, in Bengaluru, showed how the riveting story was still relevant Like many love stories, the saga of Dido and Aeneas is ...

Singaporean arts company T:>Works blends both in a drag version of “Dido and Aeneas,” Henry Purcell's 17th-century cult baroque opera based on Virgil's epic poem “The Aeneid.” Starring ...

This young professional artist development programme kicks off with an adaptation of English baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas. The work tells the love story of Dido (Alice ...

The ancient story. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, first performed in 1689, is inspired by Virgil’s account of the myth which follows the burgeoning love of Aeneas, a Trojan prince, and the Queen of ...

Blessed by warm sunny weather, Scots Opera Project’s re-imagining of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a libretto in Scots and Gaelic by Dr Michael Dempster and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir ...

According to one of Henry Purcell’s contemporaries ... s original Virgil-inspired libretto for the composer’s Dido and Aeneas and recasts it as a curious amalgam of Scots and Gaelic?

There was real human substance to characters who can feel one-dimensional: Bethan Terry’s sparky Belinda, nudging moody Dido (Leila Zanette) towards what she wants, and a rare Aeneas (Kieran Rayner) ...

Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it usually comes in at under an hour, and is no less beloved for it. Dido and Aeneas, thought to have been composed around ...

Directed by Guido Martin Brandis and with Musical Direction by Noah Mosely, Somerset Opera will be performing Purcell’s 17th-century Dido and Aeneas, next to the 4th-century Low Ham mosaic ...