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 […]
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
Join OL Artistic Director Art Historian Gülru Çakmak, for a discussion of how art can serve as a medium for engaging in the complexities of art and heritage. Çakmak also leads our post-show talk back where she will be joined by choreographer Anuradha Nehru and soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul.
