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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.
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.
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]
Dido, Belinda Aeneas, Sorceress Conductor, opera house and orchestra Label 1935 Nancy Evans Mary Hamlin Roy Henderson Mary Jarred: Clarence Raybould Boyd Neel String orchestra Charles Kennedy Scott's A Capella singers Decca Cat: X 101-107 (shellac 78s) [1] 1945 Joan Hammond Isobel Baillie Dennis Noble Edith Coates: Constant Lambert Philharmonia ...
Solon Michaelides (12 November 1905 – 10 September 1979) was a Cypriot composer, ... (Dido and Aeneas) and oratorio classics as well as choral works.
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer who is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) Russian composer who wrote colourful operas on legendary and historical ...
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis (ca. 1680–1687), is thought to have influenced Henry Purcell's later opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1687, he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral, where many of his pieces were performed. In 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.