Dido and Aeneas
an opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's boarding-school at Chelsey by young gentlewomen
by Henry Purcell
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Dido and Aeneas: an opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's boarding-school at Chelsey by young gentlewomen
1989, Janus Press
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Dido and Aeneas: an opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's boarding-school at Chelsey by young gentlewomen
1989, Janus Press
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Dido and Aeneas: an instrumental suite from the opera. Edited for strings and continuo by E.J. Dent.
1937, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes
A deluxe edition of the libretto, which is based on Virgil's Aeneid.
Consists of printing and art work on one side of a folded strip and on leaves attached to the strip, in a box containing a pocket holding a compact disc recording of the opera and an empty 2nd pocket to accomodate any other compact disc. "The book can be stood in a line or in a star-circle shape"--P. [38].
"300th anniversary publication, April 1989. The first edition of Nahum Tate's libretto ... was probably distributed to the audience at the 1st performance ... in April 1689"--P. [37].
"The text was prepared, typographically designed & handset ... by Michael Alpert at the Theodore Press in Bangor, Maine. Printed at the Janus Press in Newark, Vermont by Michael Alpert & Claire Van Vliet ... The book structure and box were designed by Claire Van Vliet"--P. [38].
"This co-publication of the Janus Press & the Theodore Press is limited to 150 copies"--P. [38].
The compact disc is published: [England] : Chandos, p1981 (CHAN 8306).
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