while the contemporary composer Atsushi Sakai expands the work with new compositions and lends the tragedy a mystical dimension. The Swiss soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis sings the role of Dido.

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 ...

Singaporean arts company T:>Works blends both in a drag version of “Dido and Aeneas,” Henry Purcell's 17th-century cult baroque opera based on Virgil's epic poem “The Aeneid.” Starring ...

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 ...

Emma Morwood as Dido in Dido and Aeneas at Pitlochry Festival Theatre PIC: Fraser Band All of which goes hand in hand with the rough and ready nature of this performance. On the one hand you have ...

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 ...

Somerset Opera's production of Dido and Aeneas at the Museum of Somerset | Photo credit: Edward J Felton First up, this was performed on a sort of catwalk (audience either side) in the narrowish main ...

Dido and Aeneas, thought to have been composed around 1688, dramatises a story from Virgil’s Aeneid, the pre-Christian saga about a Trojan hero who survives that nasty business with the wooden ...

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 ...

Legendary American soprano Jessye Norman (1945-2019) was an opera star and recitalist known for her fluid artistry and dramatic intensity. She was born into a musical family with a mother and ...