The staging of Dido and Aeneas, written 300-odd years ago by Henry Purcell, in Bengaluru, showed how the riveting story was still relevant Like many love stories, the saga of Dido and Aeneas is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas, composed by Henry Purcell with lyrics by Nahum Tate, is returning in a new psychological production of the Bertini Choir directed by Iris Goren. Loosely based on ...

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 ...

Henry Purcell's mini-masterpiece Dido and Aeneas distills all the drama and power usually found in a standard-length opera into a taut, fast moving and ultimately devastatingly powerful 60 minutes ...

Professional tenor and teacher, Douglas Von Edelmann, drew a crowd of close to 100 to the Parrott ... ballad from Purcell, Ah, Belinda, I am Prest, from his opera Dido and Aeneas was about mixed ...