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This week's lineup proves Canberra knows how to party in style – even in the depths of winter. Here's your bumper guide to ...
It has been a great first week of the 2025 Shipston Proms Music Festival held in and around Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire ...
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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 ...
At the heart of the opera lies the doomed love story between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan warrior Aeneas. But ...
Royston Choral Society is returning to Royston Parish Church in July for a performance of Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'.
A gorgeous night at the theatre! For their first date with the Roslyn Packer Theatre Pinchgut Opera chose possibly the most unlikely work in the entire repertoire of early opera: Purcell's The Fairy ...
Dido and Aeneas, and opera in three acts by Henry Purcell with text by Nahum Tate, is headed to Theater Basel. Learn more about this upcoming show and how to get tickets here!
In Henry Purcell’s original opera, the hero is shipwrecked in Carthage where his love for Dido, the queen, leads to her death. Anna Dowsley, one of our more outstanding mezzosopranos, played ...
Dido and Aeneas opera, ... Written as an opera by Henry Purcell, in the Baroque period, Dido and Aeneas, even after 300-odd years, remains one of the most-performed English operas.
Dido and Aeneas, Pitlochry Festival ... According to one of Henry Purcell’s contemporaries, the 17th century composer demonstrated “a peculiar genius to express the energy of English words”.