Especially evocative is a moment with Dido in a sheet that calls to mind ... with Libretto by Nahum Tate DIDO AND AENEAS the show is filled with music, love, magic, and tragedy all told in 55 ...

Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is packed from start to finish with music of unearthly beauty, wit and grace. Yet a good performance always seems to drive toward the opera's final moments, when the ...

The work tells, in achingly gorgeous music, the sad tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her lover, the Trojan hero Aeneas who heads off to war, leaving her behind, desperate and suicidal, singing one ...

Aeneas is the perfect guy — strong yet gentle, protective and attentive, not to mention good-looking. He’s also a Trojan hero. Maybe he’s too perfect, which is reason enough for Dido’s ...

I asked why both a cello and a viola da gamba and Schuldiner told me that when it’s serious music as sung by Dido, Belinda, or Aeneas then she plays. When it’s more upbeat music involving ...

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 ...

In addition to being the first full-length opera staged here, "Dido and Aeneas" will be the first Tufts Opera Ensemble production ever to be accompanied by an orchestra. Past performances relied on a ...

The Bodhi Tree cast includes Evan White as Aeneas and Katherine Polit as Dido’s confidante, Belinda. Brendan Nguyen is the music director-conductor and Michael Mizerany the choreographer.

Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas ... our understanding of a piece of music. In 1987, when my book first appeared, the scholarly consensus was that “Dido and Aeneas” was written for Josias ...