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 ...

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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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Animated, passionate, intense -- as any classically trained soprano should be -- Dora Ohrenstein moves easily between the worlds of classical music, new music and the American art ...

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Mark Morris’ dance production of Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas,” which returned Friday night to Irvine Barclay Theatre, remains a fresh, perceptive and absorbing event. There is something ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Semi-staged opera lives in a half-world — part orchestral concert, part dramatic presentation. The goal is straightforward: to involve the audience in a dramatic narrative. The challenge? Do that with ...

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 ...