Black pants and lacy tops worn by everyone on stage, perhaps deliberately unifying chorus members, soloists and acrobats, contrasted only by the white splash of smooth, tuxedo-wearing Aeneas and queen ...

One particularly early version (possibly the earliest, in fact) comes from Hellanicus of Lesbos. He was a Greek writer of the fifth century BCE. According to Hellanicus of Lesbos, Aeneas himself was ...

It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son, carrying his aging father on his back, escaping with other refugees the burning city of Troy, which had been laid siege by ...

“Dido and Aeneas,” presented by Opera Notre Dame last weekend, got the standard opera-length applause but — unlike your stereotypical work by Wagner or Verdi or whoever — is a mercifully short piece.