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 ...

Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

The University of Arizona School of Music Opera Theater will perform the chamber opera “Dido and Aeneas” on Nov. 16-19 at Crowder Hall. The opera tells the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas, ...

The ancient story. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, first performed in 1689, is inspired by Virgil’s account of the myth which follows the burgeoning love of Aeneas, a Trojan prince, and the Queen of ...

Apollo’s Fire brought Dido and Aeneas to the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music on Sunday October 12 for the ensemble’s final October performance (the last of seven, including two in ...

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 ...

“Yes, it’s that kind of show,” shouted Bjarte Eike, artistic director of the early music group Barokksolistene, as he urged a hesitant audience to yell “hah!” on cue. The show in question was ...