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Bjarte Eike and his rabble bad boys, the Barokksolistene, bring a new elongated version of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas to Longborough Festival Opera this summer Barokksolistene bring Purcell, sea shanties ...
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!
Becca D’Bus, one of Singapore’s most popular drag queens, and Tokyo’s voguers and queens team up for a grand show at the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting.
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, had the ...
In total transparency, I was apprehensive about this one because I’ve always associated opera with being outdated and inaccessible. However, director David Douglas has completely changed my mind.
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 ...
Dido and Aeneas Playhouse, QPAC, until July 27 ★★★★ Some operas – romantic ones – drag on for hours. Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it ...
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.
Jerusalem Post / J-Spot Great minds against themselves: Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' returns to the stage Originally performed in an all-girls school in London, the opera could be seen as an ...
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 on ...