Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Zeger, continues its opera season with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with additional ...

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 ...

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 Handel and Haydn Society, led by artistic director Harry Christophers, will bring one of the most beautiful and deeply moving masterpieces of the Baroque period to life with a performance of Henry ...

How do you perform an opera in Boston, New York, and back in Boston again in under 48 hours — and do it well? It helps that Henry Purcell’s 17th-century classic, “Dido and Aeneas,” is as short as it ...

Whatever way you like your opera, San Francisco probably has a company that can accommodate your preferences. Those looking for the traditional night on the town with all the trappings — bejeweled ...

“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 ...

Two classic court operas are brought together to tell the stories of love, be it between gods or royalty in the historic Confidencen Theatre, Sweden. Venus & Adonis, composed in 1683 by John Blow, is ...

Amid the flurry of round-numbered commemorations this year, Henry Purcell -- born 350 years ago -- finally had his day in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. Nicholas McGegan, the jolly ...