Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife is being transformed into an opera with music by George Palmer and starring soprano Nina Korbe.

Leah Purcell has told the story of The Drover’s Wife across play, novel, film and now opera. Each form has extended its political and emotional reach. In opera, where the text becomes sung, breath and ...

Mezzo-soprano Megan Callahan will sing the role of Dido in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" with Palm Beach Opera on Dec. 11. Baroque opera is a rarity in South Florida, but Palm Beach Opera is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Death of Classical, LLC shows a scene from a dress rehearsal of Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" to be ...

Need help preparing a 350th-birthday celebration? Look no further than Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. Music director Jeannette Sorrell and company are in the midst of throwing a ...

The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull ...

Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Zeger, continues its opera season with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with additional ...

Taking time out from L’Ormindo, their current collaboration with the Royal Opera at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company returned to the Wigmore for a single ...