Aeneas is the perfect guy — strong yet gentle, protective and attentive, not to mention good-looking. He’s also a Trojan hero. Maybe he’s too perfect, which is reason enough for Dido’s mistrust. For ...

The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull ...

Opera Company of Middlebury will make its first foray into the Baroque when it presents English composer Henry Purcell’s c. 1688 opera “Dido and Aeneas.” “This Purcell guy, he was a man of the theater ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities On Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM at St. Mary's Abbey of Morristown, a musical merger ...

CHARLESTON — The audience at Sottile Theater for the U.S. premiere of "Dido and Aeneas" was engaged by art right from the start. While waiting for the chamber opera — a Spoleto Festival USA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A SCENE from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ (photo credit: YOSSI ZWECKER) The decision to open the 40th opera season on Tuesday with Dido and ...

Henry Purcells only true opera, Dido and Aeneas, is based on Book IV of Virgils epic poem, Aeneid. The first performance took place at Josias Priests Boarding School for Girls in 1689, where all the ...

“It’s a great first opera,” Patrick Dupre Quigley says of Dido and Aeneas, currently in the midst of its Opera Lafayette debut. “And it’s an opera that has survived in reasonably constant performance ...

The short running time of Dido and Aeneas usually sees companies pair it with another one-act opera. In the case of English Touring Opera, however, they have supplemented it with two pieces by Italian ...

Of the double bill taking the stage at L.A. Opera this weekend composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, the Greco-Roman myth about the son of Venus’ tragic love affair, represents one of opera’s ...