LibGuides: MUS 460/560: New Millennium Opera: Dido & Aeneas

Source & background materials

Henry Purcell biography
Price, Curtis. "Purcell, Henry." Grove Music Online, 2002, Oxford University Press.
Naham Tate biography and progression of Dido & Aeneas
Price, Curtis. "Tate [Teate], Nahum (opera)." Grove Music Online, 2002, Oxford University Press.
Brutus of Alba, or, The enchanted lovers [text online]
Reproduced from a first edition original by the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Also available as an open-format ebook (.epub file), readable with most ebook readers or apps.
Book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid [English text online]
1910 translation by Theodore C. Williams. Click forward to continue: each page has approximately 30 lines of the poem.
The Aeneid Book 4 at SparkNotes
First page is summary, second page a brief analysis

1995 danced performance on DVD
Call Number: [Video] M1500.P98 D536 2000 DVD
Choreography is on display in this production. Mezzo soprano Jennifer Lane sings dual roles (Dido and the sorceress), with Mark Morris dancing the same roles.
1991 Chandos recording on CD
Call Number: [Audio] M1500.P98 D51 1991 CD
Conducted by Andrew Parrot, with Emma Kirkby and David Thomas singing the title roles.
Dido and Aeneas [audio CD]
Call Number: [Reserves] M1500.P87 D5 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Conducted by Emmanuelle Haim, with Susan Graham and Ian Bostridge in the title roles.
Remastered 1962 Decca audio recording on CD
Call Number: [Reserves] M1500.P87 D5 2000
Conducted by Anthony Lewis and sung by Janet Baker and Raimund Herincx in the title roles.

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, 2nd ed. by Ellen T. Harris
Call Number: ML410.P93 H3 2017
Publication Date: 2017
This book is a complete examination of the opera: the origin and chronology, musicology of the work, and performance history.
Also available as an ebook.

Dido and Aeneas
Entry from The Grove Book of Operas, 2nd ed, edited by Stanley Sadie and Laura Macy. Oxford University Press, 2008