Aeneas is the perfect guy — strong yet gentle, protective and attentive, not to mention good-looking. He’s also a Trojan hero. Maybe he’s too perfect, which is reason enough for Dido’s mistrust. For ...
While waiting for the chamber opera — a Spoleto Festival USA presentation of Australian opera company Opera Queensland's ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A SCENE from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ (photo credit: YOSSI ZWECKER) The decision to open the 40th opera season on Tuesday with Dido and ...
A mound of interlocking bodies folds together at center stage, dressed in all black and slick with sweat. One dancer is ...
The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull ...
“It’s a great first opera,” Patrick Dupre Quigley says of Dido and Aeneas, currently in the midst of its Opera Lafayette debut. “And it’s an opera that has survived in reasonably constant performance ...
As director of “Dido and Aeneas,” Elkhanah Pulitzer says it’s an appropriate story for Opera San Jose’s return to live performance after the pandemic shutdown. Purcell’s 1689 opera is running through ...
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 ...
General Director Plácido Domingo announced updated casting details for LA Opera's production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bela Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, two riveting stagings of two ...