Opera Cheat Sheet: Dido And Aeneas

The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Public domain. In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra discuss what is perhaps the earliest English opera, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Based on the events in Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid, Purcell’s only true opera tells the story of the ill-fated love that develops between Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a Trojan prince charged... Read More