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

Imagine a family blessed with so much singing talent it could form its own opera company. The remarkable Fonoti-Fuimaono clan ...

Just as there are many styles of orchestral music, there are many styles of opera, for example: Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas' is an example of Baroque opera Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' is a ...

Watch Stephen Johnson's analysis of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Nicholas Kraemer.

BENGALURU: A heroic Trojan prince is driven by storms to the shores of a kingdom governed by a beautiful queen. What ensues ...

Tributes have been paid to Patricia Johnson, a world-famous opera singer who was known for her dramatic voice and commanding stage presence ...

Ask someone to visualize an orchestra conductor, and the image will probably be male. Female music directors remain as rare with top orchestras and opera companies as female CEOs at major corporations ...

and it was under the restored king that theatre and opera exploded in London. Henry Purcell composed the masterpiece Dido and Aeneas (for a girls' school) and over the next century Handel, Gluck, J C ...