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    Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate...
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    boxes, or other symbols. Dido (/ˈdaɪdoʊ/ DY-doh; Ancient Greek: Διδώ Greek pronunciation: [diː.dɔ̌ː], Latin pronunciation: [ˈdiːdoː]), also known as Elissa...
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    ruins of Dido's palace. Aeneas is a title character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas (c. 1688), and Jakob Greber's Enea in Cartagine (Aeneas in Carthage)...
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    Thus, Dido's request of her people and her people's only recourse for closure align in their mutual hate for Aeneas and his Trojans. In effect, Dido's violent...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Look up dido or Dido in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dido was founder and first queen of Carthage. Dido or DIDO may also refer to: Dido, Queen of...
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  • 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...
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  • and his band Tongue. Certain live performances by Buckley have specifically been held in high regard. "Dido's Lament", an aria from Dido and Æneas by...
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    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...
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  • Naxos (Richard Strauss) Dido, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)* Floßhilde, Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung (Richard Wagner) Hänsel, Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)*...
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    essay by Roland Barthes; L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1988); Dido and Æneas (1989); The Hard Nut[1] (1991), his version of The Nutcracker set in...
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    Johnny Belinda and various adaptations Belinda, heroine of Maria Edgeworth's novel Belinda Belinda, in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Æneas Belinda Blumenthal...
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    Hébé/Phani/Zima, Les Indes galantes (Rameau) Venus, Dardanus (Rameau) Belinda, Dido and Æneas (Purcell) Blonde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart) Ilia, Idomeneo...
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  • used in English opera, most notably Henry Purcell's Dido and Æneas. Its distinctive rhythmic profile and function thus led to the French overture style found...
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    Sarah Connolly (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    (Phèdre) Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Dido) Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Dido) Handel Giulio Cesare...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Jessye Norman (category Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class)
    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...
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    Schwarzwaldmädel (Jessel) Bastienne, Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) Belinda, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini) Cis, Albert...
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  • 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...
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  • Nahum Tate (category 17th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
    opera, Dido and Aeneas. He also wrote the lyrics to a Christmas carol, "While shepherds watched their flocks". Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and came from...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Tito Les contes d'Hoffmann Così fan tutte The Cunning Little Vixen Dido and Æneas Don Carlos Don Giovanni Don Pasquale Elektra L'elisir d'amore L'enfant...
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  • Bergen Oratoriekor and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to having participated in works like Dido and Aeneas, Peer Gynt and Olav Engelbrektsson...
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  • Alexander Faris – Gilbert And Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete) And Iolanthe (Highlights) – EMI 1995 Purcell : Dido and Aeneas 2003 Gilbert & Sullivan –...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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