Dido and Aeneas
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Purcell: 15 facts about the great composer
9. Dido and Aeneas
Purcell’s first opera, ‘Dido and Aeneas’, was a monumental work in Baroque opera. Not content with a farcical boy-meets-girl love story, the work is based on Book IV of Virgil's 'Aeneid'.