Pre-Show Conversation with Amanda Eubanks Winkler

6:30 p.m. | El Museo del Barrio, New York NY, NY, United States.

Join Opera Lafayette in an engaging pre-performance conversation with Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Director of the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University) for an illuminating look at Henry Purcell’s beloved Dido and Aeneas before the performance. Tickets: Free. No registration required

Cost: Free

Dido & Aeneas (NYC)

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. | El Museo del Barrio, New York NY, NY, United States.

Feat. Mary Elizabeth Williams as Dido  Purcell’s ground-breaking opera makes its long-awaited Opera Lafayette debut. Mary Elizabeth Williams returns to Opera Lafayette as Dido, the ill-fated Queen of Carthage, following her internationally lauded performance in last season’s Morgiane. The famously haunting aria “When I Am Laid in Earth” brings the resilient Dido to a crossroad […]