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Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

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Uploaded by on Feb 7, 2007

Maria Ewing sings Dido's death (Hampton Court Palace, London). Conductor: Richard Hickox

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  • Ugh every time I hear this in music history class I want to cry! Beautiful.

  • @Music4Life720 she died because 11 people disliked this video.

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  • This is absolutely heart-wrenching :'( When my teacher played this scene for us in music lit, even the stoic men in the class appeared to be a little glassy-eyed. Yet it is so captivating that it wasn't until after it was over that I realized that there were tears running down my cheeks. If this isn't a perfect example of a literary masterpiece in the world of music, then I don't know what is!

  • It's funny because i'm playing Dido in my Latin club play AND i'm related to Henry Purcell.

    Still a beautiful song though.

  • this is really beautiful.

    I'm studying the Aeneid now (and i'd heard of the opera before) but this is so lovely and tragic. Purcell never disappoints. Nor does Virgil.

    <3

  • For my studies I am just reading Virgil's The Aeneid and found this quote following Aeneas leaving Dido in Carthage:

    “Fate moves toward its end as inexorably as water flows down to the sea, it may be forced to change its course a little but it triumphs over every attempt to prevent its fulfilment.”

    Beautiful!

    Tilibit

  • sorry i looked away and looked back and my dirty mind thought i saw dildo and aeneas.... you get the picture

  • Ugh every time I hear this in music history class I want to cry! Because I hate music history class!

  • To everyone who ever had his heart broken,this song should be dedicated to you.

  • Correction about the lyrics :

    When I am laid in earth

    May my wrongs create

    No trouble in thy breath

    Forget my fate

    Remember me

  • szép.

  • just read the Aneas and our professor put the opera dido's lament , what a sad love story it put my eyes on tears !!!!!!!

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