Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one of opera’s true classics, Aida. This production reimagines the setting in an African futurist time and landscape.

Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one ... and one of the earliest operas, Dido and Aeneas, which takes place in Carthage in North Africa. South African composers, meanwhile, have ...

Its founder, Queen Dido ... Dido and Aeneas finished with a quarrel, after which the former killed herself, cursing Aeneas and his line as she did so, and the latter flounced off to Italy.

The Opera Australia production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” that opened at the Sydney Opera House on March 13 was the second time in a year that Erin Helyard conducted the work. Previously, ...

MUSIC MUMFORD & SONS Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, 17 March Reviewed by ... David Kelly Rising star Anna Dowsley takes both the role of Dido and that of the Sorceress, who, in a thoughtful ...

Theater and voice studies were continued with the University of Michigan Opera Theater at Interlochen National Arts ... in "The Music Master', Fiona in "Brigadoon", Belinda in "Dido & Aeneas', Julie ...

Briefly, the story tells of Aeneas, a soldier who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Opera Australia Chorus and Circa Ensemble in Dido & Aeneas.

Eventually, Aeneas and crew land in Hesperia, what's now Italy, and do battle ... the lens of the character of Dido — whose sad tale prompted an opera by Henry Purcell in the 17th century ...

Maybe it’s because the audience for opera these days is mostly retirees, a demographic which can make time for a four-hour performance — it’s not like they have much else going on. “Dido and Aeneas,” ...

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 Carthage.Pitlochry ...

Get your togas ready, Tufts! "Dido and Aeneas," the Opera Ensemble's first full-length opera performance, will play tonight through Sunday in Distler Performance Hall. Two talented casts will sing the ...

starts with Nora and Michael in bed listening to an aria in Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas.” This piece of music doesn’t bode well for Nora’s future. Dido’s love for Aeneas ...