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 thought-provoking double bill pairs works written nearly three hundred years apart, each exploring remarkable women and timeless themes that remain all too relevant today. The journey begins with ...

CAPITAL REGION - Musicians of Ma’alwyck and the Excelsior Vocal Ensemble have collaborated to present Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” at 7 p.m. Friday at Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga ...

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 ...

“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 ...