Dido and Æneas
Subtitle: a tragic opera, in three acts
By: composed anno Domini 1675, by Henry Purcell; now first printed. Edited by G. Alex. Macferren ...
Contributors: Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
Series: Three centuries of drama; Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1800
Publisher: Printed for the members of the Musical antiquarian society, by Chappell
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Dido (Legendary character) -- Drama.; Aeneas (Legendary character) -- Drama.; Operas -- To 1800 -- Scores.
Genres: Drama.; Scores.
Notes: Head-piece.

Full score with figured bass.

Libretto by Nahum Tate.

J.A. Fuller Maitland dates the composition of the opera as between 1688 and 1690. cf. Grove.

Micro-opaque of original in Harvard University Library. New York, Readex Microprint, 1956. 1 card. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. (Three centuries of drama: English 1642-1700) (Three centuries of English and American plays 1500-1800)