On screen, Chinese actress Shangguan Yunzhu weeps to an audio ... audio for English baroque composer Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas” and visuals symbolizing the alleged romantic affair between ...

Based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, Dido and Aeneas was composed by Henry Purcell with libretto by Nahum Tate at the end of the 1680s. It tells the story of Dido, the widowed Queen of Carthage ...

The focus is on the music. "We call it enhancing," says Aidan Lang, who directs the Handel & Haydn Society’s upcoming presentation of Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas." "It is a concert first off ...

Henry Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas." Premiered in 1689 at a girls’ school in London, this tale of the queen of Carthage who dies for love of Aeneas, the dashing prince of Troy, is celebrated ...

Sorcery abounds in the plot of Dido and Aeneas. But the real sorcerers in the current production of the Purcell opera are the music and stage directors, Brian Davenpor and Dennis Feldman ...

I’m all for recycling, but Heiner Goebbels’s “Everything That Happened and Would Happen,” which had its North American premiere at the Park Avenue Armory on Monday, looked mostly like a ...

On March 8 and 9, Ohrenstein will direct Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," a rarely performed opera -- the first opera in English -- that was composed in 1689 and based on a section of Virgil's ...