Word: dido
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grayed elegance of a Gainsborough; in another, he is lulled by the peaceful countryside of a Constable. There is also a fine sampling of George Stubbs, including two huge works-both of lions variously attacking a horse and stag-that dominate one court. A large, dramatic Henry Fuseli painting, Dido on the Funeral Pyre-all swooning figures and swirling movement-anticipates the romantic period...
...Dido and Aneas. Purcell's play, the whole thing. At the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St. May 10, 13, 15 and 16 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $5.00, $3.50 for students and senior citizens...
...scrim curtain. Like the opening in a Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas. The cinematic montage is both opulent and sensual...
BROWN HALL (New England Conservatory). Ravel: L'Heure Espagnol; and Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Tickets: $5 (call: 536-2412). Thursday through Sunday, February...
...production, conceived by Stage Director Nathaniel Merrill and executed by Set Designer Peter Wexler, has its curious faults. For example, Merrill has unaccountably confined Dido and Aeneas to a bedchamber when they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp...