Henry Purcell’s Baroque tragedy opens Opera Lafayette’s season under new artistic director Patrick Dupre Quigley.

Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire. Divas flock to the title role; Dido’s final “Lament” is a showstopper. Schools and colleges worldwide perform it; early ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which is performed outdoors in the courtyard of the Museum of Dance in Saratoga, leaves no doubt that the company’s new Artistic and General ...

Mark Morris Dance Group's Dido and Aeneas Credit: Susana Millman I was ready to be a little disappointed when I arrived at the Harris Theater for the Mark Morris Dance Group’s performance of Dido and ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which is performed outdoors in the courtyard of the Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, leaves no doubt that the company’s new Artistic and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dido (Victoria Mature) is the widowed Queen of Carthage, and her sister Belinda ...

Sorcery abounds in the plot of Dido and Aeneas. But the real sorcerers in the current production of the Purcell opera are the music and stage directors, Brian Davenpor and Dennis Feldman, who have ...

To sit or not to sit — that was one of the questions at last Friday’s rehearsal for Opera Piccola’s “Dido and Aeneas.” In the scene in question, Rainelle Kraus, who plays Dido’s devoted sister Belinda ...

Performers onstage at the Longy School of Music for the filming of "Dido and Aeneas." (Courtesy Boston Camerata) Composed for a girl’s boarding school in 1689 (or possibly 1687), “Dido and Aeneas,” ...

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 ...

Ideals of love as high as Dido's demand much from a production if they are to be convincing. Dido, of course, rejects Aeneas because he intially succumbs to Fate's dictum that he leave her, but such ...