Dido and Aeneas
Subtitle: an opera : perform'd at Josias Priest's boarding-school at Chelsey [i.e. Chelsea] by young gentlewomen
By: the words made by Nahum Tate ; the musick composed by Henry Purcell
Contributors: Virgil; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, librettist; Mayer, Anton, 1879-1945, tr; Johnson, John de Monins, 1882-1956, printer; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ger
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; Dido und Aeneas
Work titles: Dido and Aeneas
Notes: In 3 acts.

Libretto after Virgil's Aeneid; first known performance at a girls' boarding school in London, before December 1689; revived in Oxford, 10 November 1937. Cf. Grove music online; Loewenberg.

Date of publication inferred from date of revival in Oxford.

"Deutsche Übertragung von Anton Mayer"--German t.p. facing English t.p.

"Dramatis personae"--P. 7; does not include performers.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 85

English words with German translation on facing pages.