TICKETS: $35. Visit www.rockportmusic.org or call 978-546-7391. Henry Purcell was the first Mozart. The first Mendelssohn. The first Schubert. Purcell, like these other prodigious composers who also ...

Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Henry Purcell. Monday Frustratingly little is known about the tragically abbreviated life of the composer who is arguably one of Britain’s greatest - ...

Get your Henry Purcell on with Alex Cann and his Bach Elgar Choir. Cann and company, who’ve presented full-on homages to such greats as Handel and the team of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, are ...

The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Public domain. In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra discuss what is perhaps ...

(The) Mock Marriage, Movements: 'Twas within a furlong (song) (L') Arpeggiata Henry Purcell, Composer Christina Pluhar, Director Oedipus, Movements: Music for a while (song) Henry Purcell, Composer (L ...

Sarasota Opera’s production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which opened Sunday, is one to relish as it lingers in your memory. Baroque opera in live performance is rare these days, and one presented with such ...

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Purcell's music to the Shakespeare play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' didn't much impress diarist Samuel Pepys . But it's survived a long time now. It's known as "The Fairy Queen." The group called Red ...