The staging of Dido ... Purcell, in Bengaluru, showed how the riveting story was still relevant Like many love stories, the saga of Dido and Aeneas is complex – and tragic. Rooted in classical ...

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 ...

Things step up another gear in August and September when the Scots Opera Project unveils a new production of Purcell’s intimate tragedy Dido and Aeneas – sung in both Scots and Gaelic – at ...

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 ...

You can understand why the two companies are having another go, this time with Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell’s ravishing little late-17th century jewel. Opera and contemporary circus make ...

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 ...

Playwright, screenwriter, and actress Kate Mulvany has been commissioned with the task of writing the lost prologue for the first true English opera, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She joins Andy ...

Written by the English baroque composer Henry Purcell, the opera tells the tragic tale of Queen Dido of Carthage and the Trojan hero, Aeneas. At the heart of this story, Aeneas grapples with the ...