The Purcell opera is the second event in Walker’s ... until it really starts to pick up its pace,” he said. Dido and Aeneas will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Norton Museum of ...

For a short opera, “Dido and Aeneas” packs a mighty punch. It’s hard to overstate the significance of Purcell’s poignant 17th century masterwork — or its lingering impact on music today.

The Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas, composed by Henry Purcell with lyrics by Nahum Tate, is returning in a new psychological production of the Bertini Choir directed by Iris Goren. Loosely based on ...

a position she takes seriously in LSU Opera’s production of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” The opera runs for two performances on Friday and Sunday in LSU’s Claude L. Shaver Theatre.

LA Opera's production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bela Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, two riveting stagings of two disparate operas written more than two centuries apart that come ...

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is something of an anomaly. Not only is it the English composer’s only ‘full opera’ (that is, entirely sung with no spoken dialogue), but, despite its contemporary popularity ...

Sure, Purcell fast-forwards the love story, even by operatic standards, but this felt immediate, playful, true, and gave the piece a proper shape as the light-heartedness turns to tragedy and grief.

The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, plagued by a sorceress who doesn’t want their love to be. Written around 1683 by Henry Purcell and first performed in 1689, it was ...

I was pleasantly surprised by the absolute delight and admiration I felt while watching the Scots Opera Project perform their award-winning reinvention of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.