Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

• Movies
• 2009-05-15
• EN
• Released
• 1h 0m
• GB
• Drama - Music

• 10.0
• 1
• Trailer

Production

Royal Opera House

Storyline

The Royal Opera, the Royal Ballet, and director-choreographer Wayne McGregor bring us an interpretation of DIDO AND AENEAS, an opera composed by Henry Purcell, with a libretto by Nahum Tate; based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. We find Dido in her court with her attendants. Dido fears that her love for Aeneas will make her a weak monarch, but her attendants assure her that heroes, too, love....