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36. Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda 37. Song: When I am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) 38. With Drooping Wings Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. 1677-88 First Perf ormance. 1689 in London, Josias Priest's Girls' School First Pub lication. 1689 Librettist Nahum Tate (1652-1715), after Virgil (70 BCE-19 BCE) Language English Composer Time Period ...
Belinda is trying to cheer Dido up, but Dido is full of sorrow, saying 'Peace and I are strangers grown'. Belinda believes the source of this grief to be the Trojan Aeneas, and suggests that Carthage's troubles could be resolved by a marriage between the two.
Browse through all scenes with Belinda (soprano) from the English opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
Watch movie and read libretto and translation of Thy hand Belinda when I am laid, an aria for mezzo or soprano from the English opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain.
Character description, analysis and casting breakdown for Belinda from Dido and Aeneas.
A guide to Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and its best recordings. True love, evil plotting, a hero's calling... the story in Virgil's Aeneid is retold in Purcell's opera. Here, you can find out more about the story, music and performances of Dido and Aeneas. Autumn Sale!
