Tuesday 4 June 2019

Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs

NEW YORK (AP) - "When I am laid in earth," the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas."

Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this ...
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