of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered...

Ketterer, The perils of Dido: sorcery and melodrama in Vergil's Aeneid IV and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, 1992. R.H. Klausen, Aeneas und die Penaten, 1839...

Dido's Lament ("When I am laid in earth") is the closing aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. It is included...

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ɪˈniːəs/ ih-NEE-əs, Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son...

tells an intense dramatic tale of Dido and her fanatical love for Aeneas (induced by Cupid), Aeneas' betrayal of her and her eventual suicide on his departure...

Italian-style recitative. Each work runs to less than one hour. At the time, Dido and Aeneas never found its way to the theatre, though it appears to have been...

Aeneas' mother, with the intention of distracting Aeneas from his destiny of founding a city in Italy. Aeneas is inclined to return Dido's love, and during...

Christopher Marlowe Dido and Aeneas, an opera by Henry Purcell Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera), an opera by Stephen Storace Dido (Fuseli), a painting...

Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil's Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the north African city of Carthage, tempts Aeneas, the...

This is a discography of Dido and Aeneas, an opera by Henry Purcell. The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in London in the...

Naxos (Richard Strauss) Dido, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)* Floßhilde, Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung (Richard Wagner) Hänsel, Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)*...

(Phèdre) Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Dido) Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Dido) Handel Giulio Cesare...

Festival, and in Aix-en-Provence. In 2006 she sang as Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea in Brussels and Berlin, then as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with William...

the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia...

Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Hampton Court, 1995); Marie in Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera, 1997); the title role in Fedora (Los Angeles Opera, 1997); and the...

weep full sore, and sheddeth tender tears. In Henry Purcell's 1688 opera Dido and Aeneas, (librettist Nahum Tate), when Aeneas tells Dido he must abandon...

other works the Ave Maria by Pietro Mascagni and Mariae Wiegenlied by Max Reger. Dido (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas) Contessa Almaviva (Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro)...

mix of opera and pop music, songs by Renaissance composer John Dowland and excerpts from Baroque composer Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas juxtaposed with...

calling and withdraws in the forest to her first spouse, Sichaeus. The violent ending of Dido and Aeneas' relationship, mythical founders of Carthage and Rome...

in a ii-V-I turnaround in C major. See, for example, Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas. Examples of popular music songs featuring the augmented chord include...

39 and Johann Baptist Wanhal's G minor symphony from before 1771. Arcangelo Corelli Christmas Concerto Henry Purcell "Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneas...

Dmitri Tcherniakov. 2005/06 – Concert performance and CD record of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. 2006/07 – Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro directed by...

series of Supernatural "Wayward Sister" (song), an aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell; see List of compositions by Henry Purcell Search...

and for his libretto for Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas. Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and came from a family of Puritan clerics. He was the...

and 2008. In 2009, Fiona Shaw performed one of these tales, Echo and Narcissus, in the context of a Prologue to Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas...

Philadelphia, when cast as Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She went on to sing leading roles with many other companies...

Dioclesian and King Arthur, and who was associated with Dido and Aeneas. A letter describing the original performance shows that the parts of Titania and Oberon...

Stay, Prince and hear Scene from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The witches' messenger, in the form of Mercury himself, attempts to convince Aeneas to leave Carthage...

Finchley) Metropolitan Opera world première Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress, Dido) Gioachino Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) Richard...

instructions to the witches before a final dance and Macbeth's arrival. In Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas with libretto by Nahum Tate, the Sorceress...