The opera DIDO AND AENEAS may clock in under an hour, but this production by Bodhi Tree Concerts is a delightful evening spent at a theatre. Performances are only this weekend through Sunday ...

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 ...

This is why Dido considers marriage to Aeneas. It’s believed that peace and power would prevail in bonding between Carthage and Troy. “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the earliest English operas ...

The most exciting discovery about “Dido and Aeneas” in the past 30 years was made by the English scholar Bryan White in 2009 and entails a letter written from Aleppo, in present-day Syria.

Dido and Aeneas is a great lesson in aphoristic storytelling. In less than 1½ hours, including an intermission, it spans the start of the couple's romance, the quarrel over his departure for Troy ...

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.

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music, Bangalore ...

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.

Purcell (1659-1695) was a composer from the Baroque period of music. He and his librettist, Nahum Tate, based Dido and Aeneas on Book IV of the Aeneid by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

Southeast Missouri State University Department of Music presents "Dido and Aeneas" Saturday night, Jan. 19, 2013 in the Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall on the River Campus.