The Canadian mezzo-soprano most recently sang the role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas, and she is set to leave Amsterdam ... So I decided to sing something classical, because it was kind of simpler for me ...

a radical reinterpretation of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas that recasts abandonment not as tragedy, but transformation. “I have some friends who are marginal in conventional society, they have become ...

But as conductor Kamal Khan explained to me, Aida is, at its heart ... and one of the earliest operas, Dido and Aeneas, which takes place in Carthage in North Africa. South African composers ...

Radio Includes: London Belongs to Me (BBC Radio 4); From Morning to ... Hansel and Gretel (Longborough Festival Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Buxton International Festival), Alcina (Ensemble Orquesta ...

The Opera Australia production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” that opened at the Sydney ... Dowsley’s imploring “Remember Me” at the climax were effectively like keening. It’s also worth noting how ...

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.

Anna Dowsley grows in stature with each appearance.Credit: David Kelly Rising star Anna Dowsley takes both the role of Dido and that of ... and shining aura. As Aeneas, Nicholas Jones had a ...

"When President Trump chose me for this position ... to Carthage, where Aeneas tells Queen Dido his war stories, and where Dido, against her best instincts, falls in love with him.

“I remember ... will have me, I’m here.” The original version of this story stated that Circa collaborated with Opera Australia on productions of Orpheus & Eurydice and Dido & Aeneas.

In general, these heady gestures fell flat for me. (I’ll concede, however, that “Dido and Aeneas” has never quite been an opera for opera’s sake. Nahum Tate’s 1680s libretto does seem to allegorically ...

Blessed by warm sunny weather, Scots Opera Project’s re-imagining of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a libretto ... its familiar “Remember me” superbly effective in Scots as “Yeese ...