Henry Purcell was a renowned English composer during the Baroque era, celebrated for his significant contributions to the development of English music. His compositions, which include sacred music, ...

Alex Cann and company, who’ve presented full-on homages to such greats as Handel and the team of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur ...

The frontispiece to Purcell's Sonnata's of III Parts is examined as a potential source of new information about the composer's life and personality. A discussion of the rhetorical status of ...

Performers onstage at the Longy School of Music for the filming of "Dido and Aeneas." (Courtesy Boston Camerata) Composed for a girl’s boarding school in 1689 (or possibly 1687), “Dido and Aeneas,” ...

This weekend’s hot ticket items features Island soloists and a cornerstone choir, a piano-led trio and a Canadian rock show ...

Students from the Mannes School of Music and the School of Drama presented selections from Henry Purcell’s baroque semi-opera Fairy Queen, loosely based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s ...

Sarasota Opera’s production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which opened Sunday, is one to relish as it lingers in your memory. Baroque opera in live performance is rare these days, and one presented with such ...

Baroque opera is a rarity in South Florida, but Palm Beach Opera is enthusiastically digging into this repertory Saturday for the first event of its 60th anniversary season. English opera is even ...

Movie"Two classic court operas are brought together to tell the stories of love, be it between gods or royalty in the historic Confidencen Theatre, Sweden." Two classic court operas are brought ...

“It’s a great first opera,” Patrick Dupre Quigley says of Dido and Aeneas, currently in the midst of its Opera Lafayette debut. “And it’s an opera that has survived in reasonably constant performance ...

Henry Purcell is known for his songs, hymns, anthems, odes, operas — in short, for his vocal music. Which is all the more reason to welcome an excellent forthcoming CD of his keyboard music. Just to ...