In anticipation of Camerata’s new production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, we begin another thread. We’ll follow this powerful story of love and betrayal, as it is transmitted across the centuries.

BUT anxious cares already seiz’d the queen:
She fed within her veins a flame unseen;
The hero’s valor, acts, and birth inspire
Her soul with love, and fan the secret fire.
His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart,
Improve the passion, and increase the smart.

~ Aeneid, Book 4, translated by John Dryden