One character in this opera is calmed by an instruction to "take a boozy short leave.. and never intend" to return.
One character in this opera is calmed by an instruction to "take a boozy short leave.. and never intend" to return. The chorus joins in for "Ho Ho Ho" after a "trusted elf" is sent disguised as Mercury, and earlier Belinda is told that "Peace and I are strangers grown" by the first title character. First performed by a school for young ladies in Chelsea, it features a libretto by Nahum Tate and the arias "Death must come when he is gone" and "When I am Laid in Earth." For 10 points, name this opera about a Trojan prince and Carthaginian queen by Henry Purcell.
One character in this opera is calmed by an instruction to "take a boozy short leave.. and never intend" to return.
{Dido and Aeneas}