Although it takes little more than an hour to perform, Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of
seventeenth-century England. This book demonstrates the opera's
deep roots in the theatrical and musical traditions of its day,
summarizing the cultural climate in which the opera was composed
and analyzing Nahum Tate's libretto in light of seventeenth-century
English music text conventions. Harris also evaluates the surviving
sources, comparing them with the original libretto, and discusses
the work's performance history and critical reception from the
first performance through the revivals of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
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