Dido's Lament – When I am laid in earth, is one of my favorite opera's and aria's of all time. I heard this opera when I was 17 years old and just wanted to sing the title role.
And it's still one of my favourites...
Dido and Aeneas  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. It was composed no later than July 1688 and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. 

New tracks tagged ##singer #orchestra