Dido and Aeneas

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Dido and Aeneas

Opera by Henry Purcell (libretto by N Tate, after the Roman poet Virgil), first produced (‘by young gentlewomen’) at Josias Priest's boarding school in Chelsea, London, England, in December 1689.

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