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Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) [1] is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain.
Lea Desandre performs "Dido's Lament" with Les Arts Florissants in 2020. 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. Dido's Lament chromatic fourth ground bass, measures 1–6 [1]
Henry Purcell (/ ˈ p ɜːr s əl /, rare: / p ər ˈ s ɛ l /; [n 1] c. 10 September 1659 [n 2] – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
The opera will be performed outdoors Dec. 11 at the Norton Museum of Art Sculpture Garden.
Dido and Aeneas opened at the Hampstead Conservatoire on 17 May 1900, to critical success but a financial loss of £180 for the three performance run. Friends made up the shortfall, and the company staged the work again the following year at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. It ran there from 25 to 30 March 1901, along with the Society's new ...
English: An extract of Henry Purcell (Q9695) 's Dido and Aeneas (Q746646) performed by Les Arts Florissants (Q1752532): Lea Desandre (Q74449052) (mezzo-soprano), Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Thomas Dunford (Q81748851) (theorbo), William Christie (Q376588) (harpsichord, organ), and filmed at the Thiré (Q1420849) church in western France in November 2020 by J.Blanch Productions .
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) (1711), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz' opera Les Troyens (c. 1857), as well as in Metastasio's immensely popular [35] opera libretto Didone abbandonata.
Z 626, Opera, Dido and Aeneas (by 1688) Movement 1, Overture; Act 1 Movement 2a, Aria, "Shake the cloud from off your brow" Movement 2b, Chorus, "Banish sorrow, banish care" Movement 3, Aria and Ritornello, "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment" Movement 4, Duet (dialogue), "Grief increases by concealing" Movement 5, Chorus, "When monarchs unite"