FIU Opera Theater presents "Dido & Aeneas" by Henry Purcell

Join the students of the FIU Opera Workshop as they perform Henry Purcell's monumental Baroque opera, Dido & Aeneas. Eager to destroy Carthage, an evil sorceress plots to end the engagement of the Carthaginian queen, Dido, to the Trojan hero, Aeneas. Tricked into believing that the gods want him to leave Carthage and found the city of Rome, Aeneas is forced to abandon Dido. Recognizing that she cannot live with the shame and the sorrow, or contin...