Drawing on her classical training, combined with a deep, experiential knowledge of past and present American composers, Dora Ohrenstein will direct Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," a rarely ...

Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire. Divas flock to the title role; Dido’s final “Lament” is a showstopper.

Certainly there’s no mystery about the opera’s stature as one of the glories of the Baroque era. The work tells, in achingly gorgeous music, the sad tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her lover, the ...

Based on Book IV of the Aeneid, the opera was composed in 1688 and is considered one of the great works of English Baroque. Unprecedented montage has scenic direction by William Pereira and ...

Dido in 2019 Mauricio Santana/Getty Images. She also told Stereogum in 2019: “That’s sort of been the way I’ve been with everything in life. If I’m not feeling like I want to put the music ...

L-R Cassidy Dixon, Caire Tendl, Brandon Mecklenburg were Belinda, Dido, Aeneas. I’ll admit what I really wanted to hear was the “Baroque” orchestra and they were spot on.

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas will be performed on Saturday, June 22, at 11 a.m. Alma Hall, 1 Yair Street, Zichron Ya’acov; on Monday, June 24, and Wednesday, June 26, at 8 p.m., at Recanati ...

The University of Arizona School of Music Opera Theater will perform the chamber opera “Dido and Aeneas” on Nov. 16-19 at Crowder Hall. The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas ...

Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

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 ...