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 ...

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 ...

"Dido and Aeneas" is Purcell's only true opera, and one of the earliest known English operas. It tells the story of doomed love and devotion to duty. Lang, who recently announced he’s leaving ...

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 ...

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.

Tony winners Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark put aside their usual show tunes to sing Henry Purcell’s 17th Century opera, “Dido & Aeneas,” presented Thursday and Friday by Master Voices ...

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 ...

General Director Plácido Domingo announced updated casting details for LA Opera's production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bela Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, two riveting stagings of two ...