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Britney Spears Shocks Australian Parliament By Doing Her Job

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

... know that despite pushing 30 for the last few years of her life, Spears, by way of some excellent co-writing by Dido, remains not a girl, not yet a woman.

Joyce McMillan: Reforms are a step too far � back to the 1950s

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

... their autumn colours, the aching magnificence of the music, as the military bands play their way through Elgar's Nimrod, Purcell's Dido, the Last Post...

From Daisy to Moxey � City's best cup moments

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

If anyone has earned legendary status in City's pantheon of FA Cup stars it is persistent percher Dido, the seagull which sat on the crossbar at one end of ...

Music review: a tender 'Dido and Aeneas'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is packed from start to finish with music of unearthly beauty, wit and grace. Yet a good performance always seems to drive ...

Varied experience leads Thompson to jazz "Reverie"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

During college I was the lead in the operettas - Desiree from "A Little Night Music," Carmen from Bizet's "Carmen," Dido from Purcell's "Dido & Aeneas...

The trials of going private

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

(Though in between times managed Dido, which I guess is the missing link...) Our plane proved to be terminally ill, so we ended up having to fly on a ...

Arms and a man

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Speeches like the epic's invocation of Arma virumque cano, Anna's appeal to Dido, and O luce magis dilecta sorori also underscore the classical tradition of ...

Susan Graham softens up for Dido

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0200

In her first appearance with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Graham will sing Dido in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," with Music Director Nicholas McGegan ...