The decision to open the 40th opera season on Tuesday with Dido and Aeneas is a lovely nod to the past while ensuring the ...

“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 ...

Alicia Cadwgan and Declan Cudd in Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music's Dido and Aeneas at the Victoria University Memorial Theatre in August. Photo: Debbie Rawson Virgil's tale is thousands of years ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Animated, passionate, intense -- as any classically trained soprano should be -- Dora Ohrenstein moves easily between the worlds of classical music, new music and the American art ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Opera Workshop will present Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, at 8 p.m. March 8 and 2:30 p.m. March 9 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the ...

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 ...

The hero's journey is a motif that has run through human history. The actions of ancient heroes such as Gilgamesh, Ulysses and Aeneas, to name just 3, have spanned the millennia and stimulated Western ...

Vergilius, an annual journal for all those interested in Vergilian studies, publishes scholarly submissions on all aspects of Vergil’s poems, as well as poetry and translation inspired by Vergil’s ...