News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 28 days ago
Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is packed from start to finish with music of unearthly beauty, wit and grace. Yet a good performance always seems to drive toward the opera's final moments, when the abandoned Carthaginian queen goes sorrowfully but...
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 28 days ago
This year, a hefty percentage of classical programs include works by Mendelssohn (who was born 200 years ago) and Joseph Haydn (who died 200 years ago)...And now we come to Henry Purcell, the English composer born 350 years ago this fall, whose music...