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"dido" Definitions
  1. a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
  2. a bauble or trifle.

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In his great " Dido and Aeneas " (1989), the heroine is divided into the queen, Dido, and her destroyer, the Sorceress.
On Thursday at City Center, she sang Dido in a semi-staged production of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," a milestone of English Baroque opera.
So it goes with Dido, the famous queen of Virgil's "Aeneid," and Nora, her modern-day analog in Abby Rosebrock's morbidly charming "Dido of Idaho" at Ensemble Studio Theater.
As he sets sail from Carthage, Dido burns the bed.
Both Dido and Mr Gray are obsessed with Britain's murky light.
Dido is definitely still a thing and Kendrick is a thing.
The coping methods of Dua Lipa and Dido are, admittedly, different.
In fact, she was guesting in a student production of "Dido and Aeneas," in which Aeneas was got up as the captain of an American football team and Dido as a cheerleader; it worked surprisingly well.
Though Purcell wrote a prologue for "Dido," the music has been lost.
And then, written some two centuries prior, there's Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
"Dido of Idaho" builds to a hammy Hallmark-message of an ending.
I grew up listening to Dido and Norah Jones at my parents' house.
In the meantime, the mystery surrounding "Dido" gives full rein to the imagination.
Thirty years ago, I wrote a book about "Dido and Aeneas" — drawn from Virgil's telling of the abandonment of Dido, the queen of Carthage, by the Trojan hero Aeneas — at a time we thought we had a good grip on it.
Dido says being a mother has definitely had a positive impact on her career.
Here, Dido, the Queen of Carthage, falls in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas.
The type of love you cry over while listening to Lisa Loeb or Dido.
Mr. Whitehead's marriages to Diane Leigh, Dido Goldsmith and Liza Tsyzina ended in divorce.
Heard's staging of "Dido" was lighter and daffier in tone, despite the tragic ending.
Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and Benjamin Britten's "Curlew River" aren't an obvious pair.
Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is one of the most beloved operas in the repertory.
A few years after Amy Winehouse threw some form of spherical fruit at her Best Female Artist adversary Dido's album poster shouting "I HATE YOU DIDO", Amy got super famous and Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong was still called that.
In Dido and Aeneas, when Dido sings her suicide aria "When I Am Laid in Earth," I understand that I should be thinking about the inevitability of death and how it will come for us all, and the tragedy of doomed love.
TalkTalk Chief Executive Dido Harding said the regulator had baulked at taking the obvious step.
Miley is as good as ever, and her voice is perfectly suited to the Dido song.
She filled in the melodies on all three tracks, taking over for Beyoncé, Dido, and Rihanna.
Under Mikhaela Mahony's direction, "Dido of Idaho" is hilariously off-kilter and engrossing at the start.
At her best Ms. Norman commanded the stage with her formidable presence and glorious singing, though she particularly favored mythic roles that lent themselves to her earth-goddess look, like Alceste, Medea, Phaedra, Cassandra and Dido (both in Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and Berlioz's "Les Troyens").
I was surprisingly grateful for Dido, though, and for the people who'd told me to wear sunscreen.
" Dido previewed the sound of her album on Monday with the release of her new single, "Hurricanes.
As Ms. O'Hara's Dido stared at Aeneas, emotions fluttered across her face as she wondered about his intentions.
Daniela Mack, an outstanding mezzo, sings Dido, with Paul La Rosa as Aeneas and Molly Quinn as Belinda.
Birnbaum further complicates things: Her Dido storms off at the end and seems not to die at all.
I thought about how this was the earth, this was the place that Dido would be laid into.
But add Henry Purcell's ineffably beautiful melodies in "Dido and Aeneas," and Dido, the jilted heroine, in a parting lament sung to her maid, Belinda, delivers this as one of the most heart-rending lines in all of opera, as she faces a lonely death with dignity and generous spirit intact.
"It smells of the cork forest, it's got a very distinct smell," architect Dido Milne said during a tour.
Matthew Barnett Howland, Dido Milne, and Oliver Wilton designed every aspect of the Cork House with sustainability in mind.
It was perhaps my guilt that caused me to work a character inspired by Alaa (Dido) into my novel.
Other performances include "Dido's Lament" from Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and a scene from George Frideric Handel's Agrippina.
"Xiamen is a place that doesn't have any fashion," said Dido Liu, founder of the Xiamen-based brand Deepmoss.
The history of "Dido and Aeneas" has only grown richer as we have discovered how little we actually know.
But when the end of the opera came, and Dido started to sing "When I Am Laid in Earth," for the first time, I didn't just think, "Oh, now I'm supposed to think about death" and then instead get irritated at how I didn't know anything about Dido except that she was dying.
Until March 8th, that is, when Dido and David Gray both released their first albums in nearly half a decade.
"Ofcom has produced 100 pages of consultation with little concrete action behind it," said Dido Harding, the head of TalkTalk.
As Dido, she seemed overly concerned with lovely tone and legato phrasing, sometimes at the expense of making words clear.
Since then, Mr. Morris has sometimes split the roles, giving Dido to a woman and the Sorceress to a man.
He will step down from that post — where his tenure included performing Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in Libya — in 2021.
Its date and the reference within the poem to "turning times" seemed to tie "Dido" to the Revolution of 21700.
While Dido addresses her lover Aeneas (and the audience), Dua Lipa seems to address herself as she writes down her rules.
Dido is also very excited be able to go on tour with her family, who plan to join her on different stops.
"It's a disappointing decision which will increase costs for all mobile customers," said Dido Harding, TalkTalk's chief executive, according to the Telegraph.
" Susan Graham and Matthew Polenzani gave an entrancing account of the moonlit love music for Dido and Aeneas from Berlioz's "Les Troyens.
Dido fans are thanking her for giving them the best day of their lives — that is, because she's coming back with new music!
" It can be used as a verb, too, as in, "I know Eminem is a rap god, but I really stan for Dido.
We last meet her in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution, when her father returns and Dido has been jailed on political charges.
The three bottles I recommended were Orto Vins 2013 Pedra Roja, Celler de Capçanes 2014 Peraj Petita and Venus La Universal's 2014 Dido.
The Dido offered some of the same earthy, herbal, floral qualities, but it was more exuberant, with flavors that seemed exotic and juicy.
Dido and Mr Gray have left "Life for Rent" and "White Ladder" long behind them, but plaintive guitar and piano ballads will live on.
Conducted by Mr. Morris with solid performances onstage and in the pit, "Dido" is still a masterpiece, but one from which something is missing.
They were each individually delicious — the Pedra Roja a bit more complete than the Dido — but the Peraj Petita was the better character actor.
The staging posits that Dido doesn't die of heartbreak, but by self-immolation, after the public humiliation of being abandoned by her lover, Aeneas.
One might think that the lack of a definite place and date for the "Dido" premiere doesn't much matter if we have Purcell's music.
Dido kicks off her first world tour in 15 years in May and says she has a mix of emotions about hitting the road again.
That song, which features Dido, is a dark, melancholy rap about a fan named Stan who turns out to be not just maniacal, but suicidal.
Fortune, of course, favors the bold, and upon arriving patrons will find a warm, unpretentious atmosphere and food that even Dido might have thought comforting.
This "pessimistic" approach to the text and its relation to imperial ideology has found its greatest support in the account of Aeneas's treatment of Dido.
When Aeneas deserted Dido, it didn't go especially well for Carthage, so what will happen if musicologist Nora convinces her lover to leave his wife?
ZACHARY WOOLFE The director Mary Birnbaum, in her intriguingly updated production of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" at the Juilliard School, gives us an ambiguous ending.
In 215, when my book first appeared, the scholarly consensus was that "Dido and Aeneas" was written for Josias Priest's boarding school for young gentlewomen.
When Aeneas deserted Dido, it didn't go especially well for Carthage, so what will happen if Nora, a musicologist, convinces her lover to leave his wife?
In this comedy by Abby Rosebrock ("Dido of Idaho"), directed by Taibi Magar, a high school teacher with rage issues lands at an Appalachian halfway house.
American audiences might also have heard Dido or Mr Gray crooning about unrequited love on television shows such as "How I Met Your Mother" and "The OC".
TalkTalk's Chief Executive Dido Harding said separating Openreach would enable others to see how much money was going into the network, rather than any other BT service.
Dido Harding, who received 20.6866,000 pounds in base pay, said she would donate her 220,000 pound annual cash bonus to charity following the hack on its business.
It was news to me, a genuine awful backstage secret, that he had conceived of one of those Brussels masterpieces, "Dido and Aeneas," as his last dance.
"As Ofcom considers how to improve Britain's broadband, it should feel emboldened to know it has cross-party political support to be radical," Chief Executive Dido Harding said.
Next, as a 20-year-old film student, she ponders the two men who shape her political identity: Uncle, a liberal father figure, and Dido, her Communist cousin.
At the Metropolitan Museum, the Handel + Haydn Society transports the star-crossed autocrats of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" from mythical Carthage to an ancient Egyptian temple (March 30).
Watching "Dido" on a double bill with his "Curlew River," you can see why the idea makes sense, and why Mr. Morris is an ideal director for both.
Dido is a tragic role: the widowed queen of Carthage, who falls in love with Aeneas, a Trojan prince, only to be abandoned, dying of grief at the end.
In the fortress, Senorita Dido releases the Laura orb into a large golden mechanism, which seems to spit it into the screen, now showing an image of the globe.
That is, if "Venus," which we know was performed at the court of Charles II, was later performed at Priest's school, "Dido" might well have followed the same path.
Other combos creep up on you, and you don't realize they're perfect until you experience them out of the blue (chocolate and bacon, Eminem and Dido, hot Jägermeister in winter).
The hero of "The Aeneid," on the other hand, having made a long speech, gets out of the bed he shares with Dido to go and found the Eternal City.
Chief Executive Dido Harding went on television and radio in the days following the hack to warn the company's 220 million customers that their financial data had been put at risk.
After the gods order Aeneas to abandon Dido and leave Carthage—he mustn't, after all, end up like Antony, the love slave of an African queen—he prepares to sneak away.
" It hardly even matters that they are invented: "The plaints of Dido and Ariadne in Virgil and Catullus arouse the feelings of the very people who do not believe in them.
ONCE UPON A TAPESTRY: WOVEN TALES OF HELEN AND DIDO Paris' lover and Aeneas' foil lend their drama to tapestries and full-size color cartoons from Flemish and Italian workshops. Dec.
Some elements of the film did stand the test of time, though, including the turtlenecks, the ability of Dido&aposs music to transform a scene, and Keira Knightley&aposs newsboy cap.
And the scale of the show felt exactly right; after all, "Dido" seems to have had its première not at an opera house but at a girls' boarding school in London.
But another "greatest hit" of the Baroque era, "When I am laid in earth" from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," as moving a lament as has ever been written, fared less well.
A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar featured on tracks by AWOLNATION, Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke, Solange, Dido, and The Lonely Island among those other stellar rap features you've probably heard.
It's hard to quantify exactly what's going with it musically: there are elements of trance, sure, but there's also hip-hop percussion, dreamy ambient pads, and a nasty Dido sample or two.
"It was simple, I only wanted to make another album if it was with him," Dido, 46, said of her brother, who has also remixed tracks for artists like U2 and R. Kelly.
One of them, Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," was first staged in 1989 by the Mark Morris Dance Group; the other, Britten's "Curlew River," had its premiere at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2013.
In the fortress, the Giant and a woman credited as "Senorita Dido" cohabitate with several human-size bell-shaped things, like the one Cooper encountered on his way out of the Black Lodge.
At the end of "Dido and Aeneas," the dancers, one by one, slip through a slit in a map of the world that is the show's backdrop—dying like their queen, more or less.
In spring 21981, two weeks before the opening of Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" at the University of Texas at Austin, Barbara Smith, a 21989-year-old mezzo-soprano, received some bad news.
The South Carolina-born Ms. Rosebrock, whose earlier works include "Dido of Idaho," has a nice feel for barbed comic dialogue and for topical references that quickly and unobtrusively define a time and place.
The most exciting discovery about "Dido and Aeneas" in the past 30 years was made by the English scholar Bryan White in 2009 and entails a letter written from Aleppo, in present-day Syria.
As he created the dance, "it wasn't just me feeling sorry for myself anymore" — that is, the work became about more than him, about Dido and Purcell's opera and all they allowed him to express.
And, like Odysseus, Aeneas is dangerously distracted from his mission by a beautiful woman: Dido, the queen of the North African city of Carthage, where the hero has been welcomed hospitably after he is shipwrecked.
To secure the prize, Ms. Morison, 31, sang selections from Rossini ("Tancredi"), Strauss ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Ravel ("L'Heure Espagnole") and Purcell ("Dido and Aeneas") with a silky, lightly smoky tone, easygoing dramatic flair and unflappable poise.
Carla Jablonski's poised account of Dido was a bit too detached, but the dynamic young baritone John Taylor Ward—portraying Aeneas, a witch, and several subsidiary characters—threw himself into the proceedings with stylish abandon.
The bosses of Sky and TalkTalk, Jeremy Darroch and Dido Harding, said the proposal was a step in the right direction but they regretted that Ofcom had not taken the step to spin Openreach off completely.
It was and remains one of music's most unusual partnerships: America's Most Wanted and nan's-radio-friendly English Rose; "Cum On Everybody" and "White Flag"; Marshall Bruce Mathers and Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong.
In 1989, Mr. Morris cast himself as Dido, the Queen of Carthage who falls in love with Aeneas and dies when he leaves to pursue his destiny, and also as the Sorceress, who plots Dido's ruin.
LONDON (Reuters) - TalkTalk founder and chairman Charles Dunstone will take over the running of the British telecoms operator when chief executive Dido Harding steps down in May after seven years in charge, the company said on Wednesday.
If BBC's lauded Pride And Predjudice miniseries is just a bit too over the top for you, then you'd do well to check out Belle, a historical romance drama  based on real life figure, Dido Elizabeth Belle.
It will be Mr. Morris's eighth full-length work, and a return to narrative after several seasons; his previous story works have included "Dido and Aeneas" (1989), "The Hard Nut" (1991), "Sylvia" (2004) and "Romeo and Juliet" (2008).
LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - TalkTalk said on Wednesday its chief executive Dido Harding would step down, with founder Charles Dunstone becoming executive chairman, as the broadband operator reported a 5.4 percent drop in third-quarter on-net revenue.
The show is an almost too-perfect time capsule of the early aughts: It also starred a then-unknown Katherine Heigl as alien-human hybrid Isabel and boasted the very popular theme song "Here With Me" from Dido.
If "Dido and Aeneas," like Blow's "Venus and Adonis," had been first commissioned for a court performance, and if the opera was not intended to celebrate the ascension of William and Mary, then other scenarios could be considered.
Dave's debut album Psychodrama (named after a form of psychotherapy where patients role-play past experiences from their lives to help make sense of them) reached number 1 in the UK album charts on Friday, beating Foals and Dido.
Dido (née Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong) described the making of her new album — which includes a variety of genres, ranging from hip-hop and electronic music to her folk roots — as "an absolutely magical experience" in a statement.
As for Dido, her affair with the hero reaches a tragic climax in Book IV. Aeneas, reminded by the gods of his sacred duty, abandons her, and she commits suicide—the emotional high point of the epic's first half.
"The business bounced back strongly in the final quarter following the cyber attack," Chief Executive Dido Harding said, adding that full-year core earnings had risen 2743 percent to 260 million pounds ($376 million), in line with its guidance.
But I have just completed a wholly revised second edition, and while we've learned quite a bit about "Dido" in the intervening decades, we know even less than we did then, or at least less than we had imagined.
In "Dido and Aeneas," by Henry Purcell, the more dancey of the two, the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe sings from the pit about the grief of the Queen of Carthage and the trickery of her mortal enemy, a saucy sorceress.
He persists, organising an exhibition of photographs of Syria by Freya Stark, a travel writer, in the 1920s and 1930s—and then, more ambitiously, an Anglo-Syrian production of Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas", which, against all odds, is a great success.
It had Big Bird making racist jokes about owls and it had Desmond Tutu again, it had Maroon 5 but the live stream didn't have the rights to play Maroon 5, so they dubbed Dido in over Maroon 5's live show.
While Dido sings to the audience to "remember me, but forget my fate" and subsequently commits suicide, Dua Lipa scribbles catchy mantras in her notebook (I like to imagine that she uses a fluffy-ended pen) and shares them with the world.
She goes from a Dido-esque tragic heroine, draping herself over furniture and floating barefoot down corridors, to assertive and sassy, handing out sage advice to her friends, and literally walking on water (I'm sure this is also an Important Metaphor™).
D.D.," he strips the band down to an acoustic core and plants Rena Lovelis in Dido territory for the album's most affecting and most inward-looking song: "I'm the girl in the back of the class/blank stare, don't care, don't ask.
But it's the one that Alison chose, and in the sprawling new play "Blue Ridge" — written by Abby Rosebrock ("Dido of Idaho") and directed by Taibi Magar ("Is God Is") — her violence has landed her in a halfway house somewhere in southern Appalachia.
New York-based classical music company Death of Classical staged Dido and Aeneas in a crypt this summer as part of its Angel's Share series, and when I saw it, I finally realized exactly what opera is supposed to make me feel.
The closing stretch of the album rattles off a pure R&B Timbaland track ("Yeah, I Said It"), a faithful Currents era Tame Impala cover ("Same Ol' Mistakes"), a Dido-referencing acoustic guitar and fanned drumstick romp ("Never Ending") and three powerhouse soul scorchers.
Chief Executive Dido Harding said she was "very pleased" with the way the year had started, with revenue down just 0.4 percent in its first quarter despite a fall of 9,000 in the broadband customer base as a result of last year's cyber attack.
In uttering these words, Dido becomes the Aeneid's most eloquent voice of moral outrage at the promises that always get broken by men with a mission; in killing herself, she becomes a heartbreaking symbol of the collateral damage that "empire" leaves in its wake.
Characters float in and out of the narrator's life with the sole purpose of educating her (and the reader) on the politics of Egypt, and even her relationships to Uncle and Dido are explored primarily in terms of their political, not emotional or psychological, influence.
But Dido finds him out and, in a furious tirade, lambastes the man she considers to be her husband for his craven evasion of a kind of responsibility—emotional, ethical—quite unlike the political dutifulness that has driven him from the start: What shall I say?
This takes us back to how that 1003 date was determined in the first place: A spoken "Epilogue to the Opera of 'Dido and Aeneas,' performed at Mr. Priest's Boarding-School in Chelsey," written by the poet and playwright Thomas D'Urfey, was published in his "New Poems" of 2100.
Venus, eager for her son to find a safe haven there, sends Cupid to make Dido fall in love with Aeneas in Book I, and throughout Books II and III the queen grows ever more besotted with her guest, who holds her court spellbound with tales of his sufferings and adventures.
Though both her 2017 debut, "Conversations With Friends," and her new novel, "Normal People," are set in an exactingly depicted Dublin and West Ireland in the 2010s, her books describe the kinds of all-consuming romantic attachments that have bolstered narratives since Dido and Aeneas, or, O.K., Emma and Mr. Knightley.
By the end of the book, Dido is in prison, and he says to his writer-cousin that he doesn't blame her for not making activism her life, telling her that it doesn't take an entire population to change the course of things and that everyone has his and her own calling.
If the Aeneid is an admiring piece of propaganda for empire triumphant, whose hero emblematizes the necessity of suppressing individuality in the interest of the state, what do you do with Dido—or, for that matter, with Turnus, who could well strike readers today as a heroic native resisting colonial incursion, an admirable prototype of Sitting Bull?
It could all be a bit much at times, and Ms. DiDonato's burnished tone, especially in Purcell's incomparably moving lament "When I am laid in earth" (from "Dido and Aeneas"), and blazing coloratura, especially in Niccolò Jommelli's spitfire aria "Par che di giubilo" (from "Attilio Regolo"), carried most of the freight dramatically as well as musically.
Although the Tenbury manuscript remains (almost unbelievably) the earliest source for the opera, it does not follow the libretto from Priest's school and has been influenced, we know from textual variants, by the performances of "Dido and Aeneas" on the London stage in 1700 and 1704 in terms of its layout, inclusion of movements and many additional details.
The UK oil and gas index was up 0.5 percent, supported by similar gains in shares of Royal Dutch Shell and BP. Broadband operator TalkTalk rose 7.5 percent after the company announced that founder and chairman Charles Dunstone will take over the running of the telecoms operator when chief executive Dido Harding steps down in May after seven years in charge.
Here are the three wines I suggest you try: Orto Vins Montsant Pedra Roja 2013 (Peninsula Wines, New Rochelle, N.Y.) $27 Celler de Capçanes Montsant Peraj Petita 2014 (Royal Wine, New York) $20 Venus La Universal Montsant Dido 2014 (Skurnik Wines, New York) $23 It may not be easy to find these exact bottles, so don't worry too much about the vintage.
In the section of "Notes" that comes at the end of The Late Parade, the reader learns: This poem is indebted to W. H. Auden's sonnet sequence "In Time of War" and adapts a phrase from Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage as well as a letter of Emily Dickinson's, which begins "I hear robins a great way off," written to her cousins Louise and Francis Norcross, circa April 1873.
The MetLiveArts season will also feature the early-music ensemble Sonnambula at the Cloisters; a hip-hop dance performance in the Arms and Armor Court; "Songs from the Spirit," a new work with choreography by Silas Farley, a New York City Ballet dancer, to songs composed by inmates at San Quentin prison; and a performance of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" by the Handel and Haydn Society in the Temple of Dendur.
The choreographer Mark Morris is distinguished for his exceptional musicality, so it's a gift that the Brooklyn Academy of Music will host a program of two operas: Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" (286), a now-classic production choreographed by Mr. Morris, and Benjamin Britten's "Curlew River" (21978), directed by Mr. Morris and based on a Japanese Noh play in which musicians and vocalists from the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble wear white and appear in an entirely white set.
Dance The choreographer Mark Morris is distinguished for his exceptional musicality, so it's a gift that the Brooklyn Academy of Music will host a program, Wednesday through March 19, of two operas: Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" (1989), a now-classic production choreographed by Mr. Morris, and Benjamin Britten's "Curlew River" (20093), directed by Mr. Morris and based on a Japanese Noh play in which musicians and vocalists from the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble wear white and appear in an entirely white set.
My mind would repeatedly wander away from the beauty of the sounds the singers were making to think about how, really, no one forced Aeneas to promise Dido that he would stay with her forever, and how it was kind of a dick move on his part to do it when he knew he had a destiny elsewhere, and how I really wished we could spend some time looking at what made these two people so attractive to each other when we know so little about either of them.

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