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	Dido \| Dido, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Aeneas, it is said, had the intention of talking to the queen before leaving, but she learned that the fleet was preparing to sail by herself, or as they say, through the works of Fame and her rumours.
		Aeneas answered with the usual words, saying that she deserved all recognition and praise for her generosity and everything she could claim, and that he would always keep her memory alive for as long as he breathed.
		Aeneas also put himself, when confronting the queen, behind his son Ascanius 2, saying that he was much disturbed for the wrong he was doing to his son by staying in Carthage, thus defrauding him of his realm in the new homeland.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Dido.html (6815 words)

	Dido and Aeneas directed by Paul Stern
		Aeneas arrives on African soil and upsets the balance in nature and within Dido's society.
		Paul Stern's Dido and Aeneas is vibrant and alive, filled with rich contrasts and strangely compatible differences.
		In every aspect from the rich costuming to the presence of both African and baroque music, (on the one side of the stage is the band Amapondo, and on the other a baroque ensemble and chorus) Dido and Aeneas marries European and African aesthetics breathtakingly.
	dido-and-aeneas.scenaria.net (1005 words)

	Aeneas
		Aeneas was the son of Anchises and Venus.
		When Aeneas later encountered her shade on a trip to the underworld, she turned away from him, still refusing to forgive his desertion of her.
		Aeneas was victorious, eventually killing Turnus in single combat, and went on to found the city of Lavinium.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/aeneas.html (416 words)

	Dido and Aeneas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate.
		of the legendary Queen of Carthage Dido and the Trojan refugee Aeneas.
		In a poem of about 1686 Tate himself alluded to James II as Aeneas, who is misled by the evil machinations of the Sorceress and her witches (representing Roman Catholicism, a common metaphor at the time) into abandoning Dido, who symbolizes the British people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas (837 words)

	Dido & Aeneas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Aeneas arrives at her Court, Dido’s sister, Belinda, tries to make a match between them to cement a dynasty – to unite Carthage with Troy.
		So successful is the Sorceress that Aeneas is persuaded to desert Dido and to sail away to meet his destiny in Italy, leaving Dido broken hearted.
		Dido and Aeneas has fascinated audiences for over 300 years with its light-hearted spirit, its abrupt changes of mood and scene (court, cave, dockside) and the unfailing aptness and strength of its music.
	www.zip.com.au /~kintore/dido/index.htm (680 words)

	Prima la musica, poi le parole: Dido & Aeneas
		Dido knows Aeneas' fate lies elsewhere than Carthage; his claim that "Aeneas has no fate but you!" is a rather foolish and naive in a world so tangibly and visibly ruled by the gods.
		Her abandonment is required by fate and Aeneas is theoretically more or less heroic for obeying the gods' commands: but in the experience of it, it's impossible to feel like this is in any way a happy ending for either party.
		Dido, who was a strong, successful and basically happy widow, is brought crashing to earth by the appearance of a foreign prince.
	primalamusica.typepad.com /primalamusica/2006/03/having_now_expe.html (1363 words)

	Dido
		Dido then cut the hide into tiny strips, and with the strips surrounded a large area of land, which she called Byrsa, naming it from the hide of the bull (Bell, 164).
		Dido is described not only as beautiful, but she is also described as an active and fair queen, giving "orders and laws to men" and giving labor in "equal parts, or determined by lot." Under Dido's rule, Carthage flourished.
		Dido the leader and the Trojan arrive at the same cave: and both primal Earth and Juno as the maid of honor give the signal; fires flash and heaven is a witness to the wedding, and nymphs wail from the summit of the cliff.
	www.stanford.edu /~plomio/dido.html (1728 words)

	Dido and Aeneas Photos and Synopsis
		Dido and Aeneas is an adaptation of a portion of Virgil's Aeneid.
		In the storm, the spirit of the sorceress appears before Aeneas, disguised as Mercury and reminds him he must leave and continue his quest as he is fated to be the founder of a new Troy and the Roman Empire.
		Dido is angered and forces him to leave: She will not endure a lover who has entertained leaving her.
	www.harmetz.com /soprano/synopsis/didoandaeneas.htm (656 words)

	FRANCESCO SOLIMENA called L'ABBATE CICCIO - The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas
		Bologna was represented by Marcantonio Franceschini (Mercury awaking Aeneas), Giuseppe Gambarini (Aeneas with the Dove of Venus and Aeneas and Anchises), Gian Gioseffo Dal Sole (Andromache weeping before Aeneas), Francesco Mancini (The Cumaean Sibyl) and Giovanni Torelli (Aeneas and Anchises fleeing from Troy), and Rome by Luigi Garzi (Venus at the Forge of Vulcan).
		Aeneas, the man of destiny who was to found the Italian race, alas was not to be allowed to dally in the arms of the African beauty.
		Virgil describes Aeneas as being equipped with 'a sword starred with golden-brown jasper and wearing a cloak of bright Tyrian purple draped from his shoulders, a present from a wealthy giver, Dido herself, who had made it picking out the warp-thread with a line of gold'.
	www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/xviiicent/solidido.htm (2018 words)

	AENEAS' FAREWELL TO DIDO
		Dido does not return from the underworld, and her reunion with Aeneas there is a bitter reaffirmation of the alienation that is her fate."[12]
		In having Aeneas allude to Berenice's lock here, Virgil evokes the association of the funereal lock of Dido at the close of Book 4,[18] where the removal of the lock by Iris from the head of the heroine parallels Aeneas' departure from Carthage that caused Dido's death.
		Aeneas does not attempt to rescue Dido or Creusa; it is perhaps interesting to note at this point that it is well known that Creusa was elsewhere (e.g., in Ennius) called Eurydice; for a full discussion cf.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~phoenix/contents_indices/Smith.html (3035 words)

	Dido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The story of Dido and Aeneas remained popular throughout the post-Renaissance era, and was the basis for the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and the drama Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe.
		Dido promoted a significant religious reform and after a long and prosperous reign, she favored the formation of a Republic [Virgil, Aeneid 1.426]; After her death, she was deified by her people with the name of Tanit and assimilated to the Great Goddess Astarte (Roman Juno) [Virgil, Aeneid 1.446f, Silius Italicus, Punica 1.81f].
		R.C. Ketterer, The perils of Dido: sorcery and melodrama in Vergil’s Aeneid IV and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dido (2503 words)

	Dido Receiving Aeneas - Picture - MSN Encarta
		According to the Roman poet Virgil, Venus caused Dido to fall in love with the Trojan warrior Aeneas when he was shipwrecked at Carthage.
		When he was forced to continue his journey to Rome, Dido killed herself.
		Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius, created in the 1720s by Italian artist Francesco Solimena, is in the National Gallery in London, England.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461528570/Dido_Receiving_Aeneas.html (70 words)

	Dido and Aeneas Opera Theater Costume Rentals
		Although the date of the first performance of “Dido and Aeneas” is unknown, historical records indicate that the opera may have been first performed in 1689 at Josias Priest’s boarding school for young gentlewomen in Chelsea, England.
		Aeneas lands on the coast of North Africa, near Carthage, where the widowed Queen Dido welcomes him and his fleet.
		Dido and Aeneas soon fall in love, but Dido has taken a vow of chastity after her husband’s death, and she mistrusts her feelings as well as Aeneas’ faithfulness.
	www.akrondesign.com /teaser/didoandaeneas.html (246 words)

	Dido, Queen of Carthage - Forever Remembered - Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
		Whereas Virgil depicted Dido with uncontrollable passion and lust for Aeneas, Purcell portrays Dido in his work with enough composure to deny Aeneas his wish to be with her.
		This is a segment taken from a rendition of the opera, Dido and Aeneas, done by the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroue Soloists, and John Eliot Gardiner.
		Whatever the reason for the discrepancy in characterizing Dido, all these differences between Purcell and Virgil - the queen's widowhood, her vow of chastity - suggest "an intentional distancing from Virgil's story" (Burden 232) was by Purcell.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jdpark/project/dido_aeneas.html (590 words)

	Dido's Passion
		In Heroides, Dido writes a suicide note to Aeneas, trying to hurt him as much through her death as he has by leaving her.
		She shows Aeneas a portrait gallery of her rejected suitors not as a demonstration of her self-control but of her desirability.
		Torn between love and hate for Aeneas, "truest Dido" kills herself in a deadly variation on the desire that first drew her to him.
	www.amrep.org /articles/3_2b/passion.html (1289 words)

	Dido (& Aeneas) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story of Dido and Aeneas is one of the world’s most tragic love stories, first described in Virgil’s Aeneid, then Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage and Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate’s opera Dido and Aeneas.
		Dido and Aeneas fell deeply in love, but the gods called Aeneas away to fulfill his destiny in Italy, and Dido was left heartbroken and alone.
		In reality, there was a Queen Dido of Carthage, and she did commit suicide, but it was to avoid marrying a rival king, Iarbus.
	www.oobr.com /top/volNine/twentysix/0301Dido.htm (510 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'Dido and Aeneas' by Henry Purcell - A425909
		Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell, is England's oldest opera.
		Dido, Queen of Carthage, falls in love with Aeneas, who has landed in Carthage after fleeing from Troy after defeat in the Trojan War.
		However, Dido and Aeneas was written for Josias Priest, who was a dancing master, which may explain the number of dances in the opera.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A425909 (1296 words)

	Amazon.com: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Music: Susan Graham,Ian Bostridge,David Daniels,Camilla Tilling,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dido and Aeneas is really a rare gem among the Baroque operas.
		I thought her Dido was perfectly accurate, both in her singing and in her dramaticism.
		Dido is sung there by the incomparable Emma Kirkby at her most girlish-nave, Aeneas by bass David Thomas, and the Sorceress by Jantine Noorman.
	www.amazon.com /Purcell-Dido-Aeneas-Susan-Graham/dp/B0000E6POJ (2497 words)

	Cheryl North Previews "Dido and Aeneas" at the Crucible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While opera audiences of the late 17th and 18th centuries were enamored of the intricate sets and elaborate stage mechanics used in their opera performances, Crucible's "Dido and Aeneas" outdoes anything you could imagine.
		The production is even appropriately billed, not as "Dido and Aeneas," but as a "Fire Opera." Add to all the foregoing some of the sexiest dancing to grace an operatic stage from a bevy of lithe, long-tressed young women and beefy males, and you've got a genuinely remarkable show.
		Singing the role of Dido is SFO Adler fellow mezzo-soprano Katherine Rohrer.
	www.northworks.net /c_reviews_crucible_dido.htm (463 words)

	The Classics Pages - Aeneid (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aeneas, who had escaped death when Troy fell to the Greeks, has been wandering in search of a new land in the west, where it has been prophesied he shall establish a race whose destiny is to rule the world in peace and prosperity.
		Aeneas is reluctant to fight his new hosts, but is promised help by Evander, a Greek whose capital is on the future site of Rome.
		Aeneas is wounded in the fighting, but healed by his mother.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /~loxias/aeneid.htm (983 words)

	opera atelier
		Henry Purcell took the tragic story of Dido, Queen of Carthage and her lover Aeneas and spun it into the greatest opera in the English language.
		Their love affair comes to a tragic end when Aeneas is told by the gods that he must leave in order to fulfill his destiny - the founding of Rome.
		The spurned Dido feels that she has no choice left to her but to die by her own hands.
	www.operaatelier.com /home_dido.htm (257 words)

	SLU News-Dido and Aeneas
		It runs less than an hour and is loosely based on Virgil’s epic poem, “The Aeneid.” The libretto tells the story of Dido and Aeneas, a prince of Troy before the city’s fall to the Greeks.
		He and Dido fall deeply in love, but Dido, who had sworn fidelity to her late husband’s memory, initially resists her feelings,” recounted Effler.
		Dido, inconsolable, tells Aeneas that she cannot live if he goes.
	www.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/DidoAeneasfeature.html (940 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dido And Aeneas: Music: Henry Purcell,William Christie,Jonathan Arnold,Emmanuel Balssa,Nathan Berg,Claire ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dido & Aeneas: Prelude For The Witches - Prelude Des Sorieres - Vorspiel Der Hexen 'Wayward Sisters, You That Fright'
		Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is one of the very few 17th-century works to have entered the operatic "canon" and developed a modern performance tradition before the late 20th century's early-music revival.
		Since this is coming from William Christie, you won't be surprised to hear that this Dido is "frenchified." No, not because most of the singers are French - as the editorial review mentions, their English pronunciation is generally quite admirable.
	www.amazon.ca /Dido-Aeneas-Henry-Purcell/dp/B000005EDK (1014 words)

	Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
		DIDO AND AENEAS An opera perform'd at Mr.
		DIDO Mine with storms of care opprest Is taught to pity the distrest.
		DIDO [Cupids appear in the clouds o're her tomb] Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me, On thy bosom let me rest, More I would, but Death invades me; Death is now a welcome guest.
	opera.stanford.edu /iu/libretti/dido.html (1424 words)

	Dido and Aeneas \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		It is Belinda who encourages Dido to love him, who entertains them with stories, and who finally comforts and supports Dido after Aeneas's betrayal.
		At Dido's funeral, singer Wendy Nieper wanders through the mass of mourners like Dido's released spirit, seeking but not seeing the figure of Aeneas standing raised to one side like a vision.
		Dido and Aeneas is a mixed production that provokes a mixed response.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,1535967,00.html (361 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The gem of the set is Dido and Aeneas, featuring the sublime Tatiana Troyanos as the ill-fated Queen and led by Charles Mackerras with dramatic urgency.
		The serviceable baritone Aeneas is Barry McDaniel, who sounds more the warrior than the lover, and whose timbre may surprise those accustomed to lyric tenors in the role.
		This recording with mainstream forces was one of the first of the opera to incorporate historical performance influences, making it seem less dated than most of its predecessors.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8892 (452 words)

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