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 ...

Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' is known particularly for Dido's final aria, or solo song. What is the name of that aria? - CSMonitor.com of stories this month Get unlimited stories Subscribe ...

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 ...

It's a double first at Theatre Royal Bath with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Regarded as England's first opera when initially performed around 1688, it's also the first opera to be performed in ...

Dido & Aeneas: A timeless tale of love, betrayal and more comes alive in Bengaluru (L-R) A glimpse into the rehearsals; (clockwise) Jonas Olsson, Maria Forsström and Sofia Winiarski ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

Dido in 2019 Mauricio Santana/Getty Images She also told Stereogum in 2019: “That’s sort of been the way I’ve been with everything in life. If I’m not feeling like I want to put the music ...

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 ...