At the heart of the opera lies the doomed love story between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan warrior Aeneas. But ...

Cathy Styles takes on the wicked Sorceress with witches played by Jenny Underwood and Caroline Thompson. Pippa Mayfield portrays the Sorceress’s loyal elf and John Brice leads the ship’s rowdy sailors ...

Westminster's retelling of the story takes on an underwater theme ... “Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is so much more than an old Greek tragedy told through Baroque music.

The mythological love story between the Queen of Carthage and ... rich and powerful widow who identifies with the opera heroine Dido. Victim of an unattainable love, she confronts her existential ...

For legend had it that the fling between Dido and Aeneas finished with a quarrel, after which the former killed herself, cursing Aeneas and his line as she did so, and the latter flounced off to ...

Les Arts Florissants, led by William Christie in performance and masterclasses of two masterpieces from their repertoire, Actéon by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell ...