English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman ... Well because in every good story, there needs to be a moment of conflict, and man will we have conflict!” ...

"Dido and Aeneas" is Virgil’s story of Queen Dido of Carthage, who falls in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas but is abandoned by him due to a plot by evil sorceresses that leads to her heartbreak and ...

The Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, and director-choreographer Wayne McGregor bring us an interpretation of DIDO AND AENEAS, an opera composed by Henry Purcell, with a libretto by Nahum Tate ...

The mythological love story between the Queen of Carthage and ... rich and powerful widow who identifies with the opera heroine Dido. Victim of an unattainable love, she confronts her existential ...

but what is a good love story without sinister forces conspiring to keep the lovers apart? This is Dido and Aeneas, a tragedy told and retold for centuries, as oral narratives, plays, movies ...