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Dido and Aeneas opera, ... Written as an opera by Henry Purcell, in the Baroque period, Dido and Aeneas, even after 300-odd years, remains one of the most-performed English operas.
Blessed by warm sunny weather, Scots Opera Project’s re-imagining of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a libretto in Scots and Gaelic by Dr Michael Dempster and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, had the ...
The Scots Opera Project’s production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre on 31 August, and on 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15 September . Comment. Comments ...
Somerset Opera's production of Dido and Aeneas at the Museum of Somerset | Photo credit: Edward J Felton First up, this was performed on a sort of catwalk (audience either side) in the narrowish main ...
Dido and Aeneas Playhouse, QPAC, until July 27 ★★★★. Some operas – romantic ones – drag on for hours. Not so the one surviving opera by baroque English composer Henry Purcell; it ...
You can understand why the two companies are having another go, this time with Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell’s ravishing little late-17th century jewel.
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 ...
Playwright, screenwriter, and actress Kate Mulvany has been commissioned with the task of writing the lost prologue for the first true English opera, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She joins Andy on ...
At the heart of this story, Aeneas grapples with the internal conflict between duty and love, ultimately compelled to abandon Dido. According to FIU Opera Theater Director Robert B. Dundas, “Students ...
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas John Butt, conductor Nicole Heaston, Dido Matthew Brook, Aeneas Nardus Williams, Belinda Allison Cook, Sorceress Valérie Sainte-Agathe, chorale director ...