The staging of Dido and Aeneas, written 300-odd years ago by Henry Purcell, in Bengaluru, showed how the riveting story was still relevant Like many love stories, the saga of Dido and Aeneas is ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

The first of these is followed by Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas. The programme then shifts to Mozart’s Voi che sapete from the opera The Marriage of Figaro, an aria sung ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard. A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular books, blog, articles and reviews ...

We had her sing Dido’s Lament (the closing aria from Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas) very quietly and that was really nice. Something that I do a lot, and I did it on Hot Milk and do it ...

WHITEWATER -- The College of Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater announces its productions of “The Maid Turned Mistress” by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and ...

Two classic operas for the price of one at UW-Whitewater “The Maid Turned Mistress” and “Dido and Aeneas” are in the opera double header being performed this week by the UW-Whitewater College of Arts ...