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That’s what Dido sings in Purcell’s opera, about her and Aeneas: “Remember me!” Jay is reminded of this when filling out forms on the Internet. In this episode, he plays Dido, plus Charlie Parker, ...

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 ...

To listen to Dido's famous dying aria in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in the 1951 EMI recording of the opera is also to 'listen' to what sound recordings paradoxically forget. The recording, featuring ...

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 ...

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 ...