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

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Sarasota Opera’s production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which opened Sunday, is one to relish as it lingers in your memory. Baroque opera in live performance is rare these days, and one presented with such ...

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; The Gordian Knot Unty’d. Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan (Harmonia Mundi). Amid the torrent of new recordings and reissues marking the 300th ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Amid the flurry of round-numbered commemorations this year, Henry Purcell -- born 350 years ago -- finally had his day in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. Nicholas McGegan, the jolly ...

Early Music Vancouver presents Purcell’s iconic Baroque masterpiece, and England’s first and most beloved opera, Dido and Aeneas, Thursday, July 30 at 7:30pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts ...

Susan Graham, Ian Bostridge, Camilla Tilling, Felicity Palmer, David Daniels; European Voices, Le Concert d’Astree, Emmanuelle Haim, conductor (Virgin Veritas) With more than a dozen versions of Henry ...

Marin Baroque Chamber Choir and period instrument Orchestra, Music Director Daniel Canosa, and Stage Director Marla Volovna take us on the enchanting musical journey of Henry Purcell’s English opera ...

Early on in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the chorus urges Dido to cheer up because “grief should ne’er approach the fair.” Alas for the Carthaginian queen, this is opera, where the fair almost ...